Odds and Ends

This post is a collection of odds and ends.

The Housing Finance and Capital Markets was on CSPAN today, the topic was the subprime situation. Mr. Seidman, a former Chairman of the FDIC gave a short speech and provided this nugget of wisdom; something that went like "Bankers should know who they lend money to and what they are lending money for" (a very common sense statement).

Q3 2007 Credit Union reports have been published. I expect the Banks, Thrifts and Bank Holding Company reports will be published within the next 2 weeks.

This quarter we will be adding coverage of New Jersey.

Chairman Reich of the OTS has sent out a letter for comments concerning Thrifts switching from Thrift Financial Reports to Call Report format. From an analysis point of view, this is good news, however there are some things I really like about Thrift Financial Reports that I will be sad to see disappear.

The FFIEC has extended the Web Service Pilot to the end of 2008. We will probably be adjusting our workflow to bring you more current information.

We will soon be moving off Blogger to our own blogging platform. Marian started work on this today and we will probably be using it later this week.

Have a great week, Chris