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Bill BradwayOctober 30, 2007
Countrywide Lays an Egg - Is it Broken, Rotten, or Deviled?
Analysis of: Countrywide Swings to Steep Loss | online.wsj.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLC
Countrywide reported its long awaited 3Q earnings report with an update on its mortgage origination, servicing and thrift deposit business. The loss for 3Q was $1.2 billion, in the middle of the analyst estimates. However, while not as bad as some expected, the magnitude of CFC losing 20% of its equity...
October 29, 2007
The Importance of Credit Card Expiration Dates in FACTA Litigation
Analysis of: The Importance of Credit Card Expiration Dates in FACTA Litigation | website.lawinfo.net
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Credit card expiration dates are an important security feature of credit cards. In addition to being one of the inputs required to calculate the three-digit security code found on the back of a credit card, an expiration date is also useful to a criminal as a tool to increase their credibility when...
October 25, 2007
Troubles continuing beyond the end of the year
Analysis of: Banks face more writedowns in fourth quarter | www.financialnews-us.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Banks are a main driver in our economic system both in growth and employment. Their use of moving "risky assets" outside their balance sheet is dangerous and it takes risk far from the only one that can really manage it. This habit has gone on for too long and will not be fixed overnight.
Bill BradwayOctober 4, 2007
Cheers or Tears As Commerce Takes TD's Money?
Analysis of: Commerce Goes Canadian | online.wsj.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLC
Commerce Bank's Board and Management decided to take TD's cash and stock deal, valued at $8.5 billion, barely 90 days after founder Vernon Hill was ousted as Chairman and CEO. The deal is estimated to be worth about $42/share, less than $1 above CBH's all time high. Was the price right for shareholders...
Bill BradwaySeptember 11, 2007
ACI Fills a Big (Payments) Hole in IBM's Banking Partner Base
Analysis of: ACI and IBM Collaborate to Support Core Payment Systems Refresh | www.tmcnet.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLC
This announcement has been a long time in the making for both ACI and IBM. ACI's Base 24-eps fills a large solution hole in the IBM partner directory. Is this a big deal or not? Who are likely to be the winners and losers from this partnership? What is the impact of this announcement on banks?
Bill BradwaySeptember 10, 2007
Countrywide Layoffs Indicative of More Mortgage Market Pain
Analysis of: Countrywide Is to Cut 20% of Work Force | online.wsj.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLC
Countrywide projects a 25% decline in mortgage origination volume as the reason behind this dramatic employee layoff. Is Countrywide's new origination forecast in the ballpark? How far will the mortgage market fall? Will other institutions be affected too?
September 6, 2007
E*Trade TDAmeritrade Potential Merger
Analysis of: TD Ameritrade in Merger Talks With E*Trade | online.wsj.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
This ongoing discussion is a result of: * Peak in stock market cycle. This means that commissions & trading are a tcyclical high, making E*Trade's stock strong and TD Ameritrade as valuable as it will be for 3 - 7 years. * These firms are the most similar in terms of business models & client...
September 4, 2007
Necessity for restructuring public sector banks in Germany
Analysis of: Banking bother | news.moneycentral.msn.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
1)After rescue of IKB and Sachsen LB the pressure on German politicians to get out of banking is becoming stronger. 2)The German Banking is overcrowded with banks such as private banks, saving banks and deposit taking cooperatives. Due to insufficient profitability restructuring of certain institutions...
Bill BradwayAugust 23, 2007
Did Bank of America Pull a Warren Buffett?
Analysis of: Bank of America to Invest $2 Billion in Countrywide | online.wsj.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLC
Countrywide needed to restore investor confidence. Quickly lining up Bank of America as a substantial non-voting investor during the market turmoil came at a steep price. Did Bank of America emulate Warren Buffett on this deal?
Bill BradwayAugust 21, 2007
Has the Subprime Meltdown Created a New Credit Crunch Paradigm?
Analysis of: Like a House of Cards: In a Twist Folks Paying Other Bills, But Skip Mortgage | www.nypost.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLC
The latest data on mortgage and credit card delinquencies seems to run counter to conventional wisdom - that borrowers will keep paying the mortgage and default on unsecured debt, especially credit cards. Why would the  subprime meltdown and rapidly rising foreclosures have no effect on credit...

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