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Canadian Banks Up Q4 '22 Reserve
🇨🇦 Big 5 Banks wraps up fiscal year ‘22 With a meaningful allowance Increase. In Q4 (ending Oct), the collective reserves are up 5.9%...
Frank Tian
Dec 10, 20221 min read
🏦 Chase pilots a pay-by-bank product
Even it competes with its own credit card. An ACH payment based on open banking Reduces risk of stored banking account info. Chase sees...
Frank Tian
Dec 7, 20221 min read
🏠 Canadian Mortgage Risk Snapshot - Q4 '22
Big 5 banks’ Q4 earnings reports are out. Here is an update of the mortgage book. 👇 It is a very Rough estimate, as each bank reports...
Frank Tian
Dec 4, 20221 min read
From Global to Super Regional (bank mergers)
The world is disintegrating. Then reintegrating. 📌 RBC announced the acquisition of HSBC Canada for $13.5B CAD. Several international...
Frank Tian
Dec 1, 20221 min read


Canadians Reaching Tigger Rate
Canadians heard the mortgage trigger rate a lot. How many mortgages have reached that? The answer from the Bank of Canada 👇 Out of a...
Frank Tian
Nov 25, 20221 min read


📉 Banks Need to Act Now
📉 The macro environment is challenging Not only for fintechs, but also for banks What can banks do now? McKinsey & Company studied 600...
Frank Tian
Nov 22, 20221 min read


💰 Large Banks, Small Dollar Loans
Wells Fargo is the latest major bank offering small dollar loans. The loans are for $250 or $500 with a flat fee of $12 or $20. The other...
Frank Tian
Nov 19, 20222 min read


⛑️ The Pricing Lifeline for Fintechs
⛑️ In the challenging environment BCG throws out a lifeline for Fintechs 👉 Pricing Optimization Pricing is an important tool to keep up...
Frank Tian
Nov 10, 20221 min read
🎤 Money 20/20 conference
🎤 If you don’t have $5K + 4 days for the Money 20/20 conference, you can always come to LinkedIn. Several content creators are kind...
Frank Tian
Nov 8, 20221 min read


💳 I Got a Credit Line Decrease (CLD)
This hasn’t happened in years. I actually got multiple line increases in the last 3 years. Is it a sign of a change in overall consumer...
Frank Tian
Nov 2, 20221 min read
🚰 Water-cooler Chat: The Path to the Top Job
Lately, the CEO succession at Scotiabank grabbed the media attention. The result was controversial as the one-time interviewer eventually...
Frank Tian
Oct 23, 20221 min read


Q3 '22: Strong Sales Pulled Card Balance Back
Top 4 US banks had another strong quarter with credit card purchases, which pulled the credit balance finally back to the level 3 years...
Frank Tian
Oct 21, 20221 min read


US Banks Q3 '22 Reserves
Even with the upcoming recession becoming more certain, it is probably a mild one - according to big banks’ reserve change in Q3. The...
Frank Tian
Oct 17, 20221 min read
🏦 Marcus Goldman Sachs vs. Everything Else
Goldman Sachs’ restructuring surfaced this week. 🟧 Marcus moved closer to its origination - Asset/Wealth Management. This is a brand...
Frank Tian
Oct 15, 20221 min read


Goldman Sachs' Identity Quest
Who Am I❓ A question everyone must ask. A question every bank must ask as well. Here is Goldman Sachs’ journey to explore a new identity...
Frank Tian
Oct 13, 20224 min read
💼 Financial Jobs Dipped Slightly
Despite the layoff headlines, # jobs in finance and insurance largely held steady in September. 🟦 BLS reported a decrease of 13K jobs in...
Frank Tian
Oct 5, 20221 min read
Chase Sees the Death of Card?
Financial Times revealed the internal dynamics at JPMorgan Chase - around its pay-by-bank project. Interesting to see fast payment and...
Frank Tian
Sep 23, 20222 min read
💸 The Formula of Neobank Profitability
95% of neobanks are losing money. What are the profitable ones doing differently? 👇 Penny Crosman at American Banker analyzed 3...
Frank Tian
Sep 21, 20222 min read
Embedded Finance - How Big?
How big is the opportunity? Bain recently provided an estimate. From 2021 to 2026, the revenue growth opportunity in the US: $29 billion....
Frank Tian
Sep 19, 20222 min read


🏦 Thoughts on BaaS Risk Management
It is no coincidence that several connections reached out in the last few weeks to ask about embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service...
Frank Tian
Sep 7, 20224 min read
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