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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Tracking operating efficiency is important but you should focus on trends over time rather than comparing absolute numbers among banks because operating efficiency is heavily influenced by business mix and does not take into account capital requirements or risk. Image 3: Illustrative example of a bank’s operating expenses 4.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. Isnt also true that providing funds to the sick banks also insures they dont go under? I am a strategy consultant at. at 7:39 PM.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

China''s Central Bank Discusses Deposit Insurance On December 9, Caixin Online noted PBOC Said to Be Talking to Major Banks about Deposit Insurance. Financial reform, which lies at the heart of China’s reform wishlist, embraces the eventual liberalisation of deposit rates, and the determination of interest rate levels by markets.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

Wealth Management – wealth management is heavily favored today in bank strategy due to low capital requirements – the business model was covered in the series on Asset Management. Banks have huge balance sheets well in excess of their equity value due to all deposits being liabilities – the balance sheet is the business.

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