article thumbnail

JPMorgan, Other Big Banks Front-Load $66B To Cover Bad Loans

PYMNTS

The banks, combined, have set aside $66 billion for the prospect, which is likely due to the number of corporations that may have to default due to the virus’ economic destruction. banks have tended to be more profitable than their European counterparts, perhaps able to afford a significant hit. bank Citi has set aside $7 billion.

Banking 75
article thumbnail

Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

One reason is that these businesses are not only not required to publicly disclose their financial details in most parts of the world, but often follow more malleable accounting standards, making the data less reliable and comparable.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

166: Nicolaas van Wyk

CFO Talks

So that you will eventually have the CFO focusing on three reporting areas, the traditional IFRS, then secondly, business efficiencies, and then because of the difficult economic circumstances we are in, the only way that you can still maintain the bottom line is through better efficiencies. The last one is then climate change.

CFO 40
article thumbnail

Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. Profitability, they tend to be fairly unprofitable. RITHOLTZ: Okay.