Archive: November 2019

Our Remarkable Record Predicting Bank Failure and Recovery

Updated for 3rd Quarter 2019 ranks IDCFP’s Record in History From 1990 to 2018, there were 1,419 failures of banks. Of these, 90% (1,271 banks) were ranked less than 125 by IDC Financial Publishing (IDCFP) up to 17 months before failure. Further, 73% (1,033 banks) were rated less than 125 by IDCFP…

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Negative Balance Sheet Cash Flow Leads to Liquidity Risk

IDC Financial Publishing (IDCFP) utilizes the acronym CAMEL to represent the financial ratios used to evaluate the safety and soundness of commercial banks, savings institutions and credit unions. This article explains how we use liquidity as a component of our CAMEL rating, and why it is valuable and important to monitor. Liquidity…

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High Leverage that Yields Negative Earnings Creates Risk

IDC Financial Publishing (IDCFP) utilizes the acronym CAMEL to represent the financial ratios used to evaluate the safety and soundness of commercial banks, savings institutions and credit unions. In this article, we explain how IDCFP uses earnings returns as the “E” component of our CAMEL rating, and why it is important…

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The Critical Margins Used to Measure Management in Banks

IDC Financial Publishing (IDCFP) utilizes the acronym CAMEL to represent the financial ratios used to evaluate the safety and soundness of commercial banks, savings institutions and credit unions. In this article we discuss margins as a measure of management, the "M" component of our CAMEL ranking, and why it is important…

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