Credit Unions: A New Growth Opportunity in Brokered CDs

Credit unions issuing brokered CDs averaged just 5 institutions per quarter from 2008 to 2015. Beginning in the 1st quarter of 2015, these institutions accelerated from 4 to 130 by the 4th quarter of 2018 and, as of this article publishing date, rose again to 138. IDC Financial Publishing (IDCFP) estimates…

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IDC’s CAMEL Safety Ratings Explained: L for Liquidity

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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IDC’s CAMEL Safety Ratings Explained: E for Earnings Returns

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 ranking, and why it is important…

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IDC’s CAMEL Safety Ratings Explained: M for Margins

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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IDC’s CAMEL Safety Ratings Explained: A for Adequate Capital

IDC Financial Publishing (IDCFP) uses the acronym CAMEL to represent the financial ratios we use to evaluate the safety and soundness of commercial banks, savings institutions and credit unions. This article explains how we measure adequacy of capital in banks and savings institutions as a component of our CAMEL ranking, and…

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