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Joe Garrett

Principal Consultant
Garrett, Watts & Co
Member of the Financial Services Council

Joe Garrett is the Principal of Garrett, Watts & Company, a San Francisco-based advisory firm offering mortgage banking consulting to banks, warehouse lenders, thrifts and mortgage companies. Mr. Garrett served as CEO and President of Sequoia National Bank and as Chairman, President and CEO of American Liberty Bank. Mr. Garrett has over 30 years of experience in the mortgage banking & lending industry, with an emphasis on securitization and secondary market transactions. He currently provides advisory expertise for financial institutions in areas of commercial real estate lending, mortgage banking, and disposition of non-performing loans. He has taught Real Estate Finance at the University of California at Berkeley, and served as Chairman of the Berkeley Housing Authority and Commissioner on the Berkeley Redevelopment Agency. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2003 - present Principal Consultant
Garrett, Watts & Co
2000 - 2003 Chief Execuitive Officer
SEQUOIA NATIONAL BANK

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China investment in U.S. bank first of many yet to come | 10-15-2007
Analysis of: Chinese bank in landmark US investment | www.ft.com
Author: Joe Garrett, Principal Consultant, Garrett, Watts & Co

Asian-American banks, most of which are in California, are very cheap, small enough to be easily acquired, and will likely be acquisitions targets for Chinese banks looking to diversify and expand.  The biggest of these banks are UCBH, in which an investment has just been announced, and East-West...

Kazahk banking system relatively heathy | 10-01-2007
Analysis of: Could Kazakhstan suffer a credit crisis? | www.financeasia.com
Author: Joe Garrett, Principal Consultant, Garrett, Watts & Co

There just was, and to an extent still is, a global credit crisis, and financial system in Kazahkstan seems to have weathered it.

What is their plan? | 09-24-2007
Analysis of: Accredited, Lone Star amend merger deal | www.reuters.com
Author: Joe Garrett, Principal Consultant, Garrett, Watts & Co

What a strange marriage, with Lone Star refusing to come to the wedding ceremony, Accredited sueing them, and the two eventually tieing the knot.  Lone Star must have some vision for what to do with Accredited, but at the moment, there is almost no market for sub-prime loans. The only logical plan...

A win-win for BofA and Countrywide | 08-27-2007
Author: Joe Garrett, Principal Consultant, Garrett, Watts & Co

It's good for the industry.  Sends a signal that there will be winners, that there will be money to be made in this business.  It does seem, however, like very expensive capital for Countrywide, especially when you compare it to their preferred converts last year or earlier this year which...

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