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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

Image 1: Illustrative example of a bank’s net interest income and margin Source: CIBC’s 2022 Annual Report 1.2 As an example, corporate lending is characterized by very low efficiency ratios (a good thing) but also low ROE given the large amount of capital charges. It is not a useful metric for comparing different business lines.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

A bank’s income statement can be simplified into five main line items: Net interest income Non-interest income Operating expenses Provision for credit losses (PCL) Tax Image 1: Illustrative example of a bank’s income statement Source: CIBC’s 2022 Annual Report 1. Image 2: Illustrative example of a bank’s non-interest income 3.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Such episodes often coincide with banking crises, which in turn tend to go hand in hand with much deeper recessions – balance sheet recessions – than those that characterise the average business cycle.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. In contrast, Airbnb creates a network that connects hosts and guests.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. While benchmarks are useful inputs for compensation decisions, they shouldn’t be a straitjacket.