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The Allowance Coverage Ratio: How to Judge a Bank's Reserve Adequacy
A bank can hold $50 million in reserves and still be dangerously thin. The dollar figure is nearly meaningless without context — specifically, what …
How to Read Schedule RC-C: The Loan Portfolio Breakdown
At the average community bank, commercial real estate loans now represent roughly 40–45% of total loans — and in many $500M–$2B institutions that number …
Tangible Common Equity (TCE): What It Measures and Why Banks Can't Hide From It
In March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank had a CET1 ratio above 15 percent — technically well-capitalized by every regulatory threshold. Its tangible common equity …
What Is the Provision for Credit Losses — and Why It Moves Bank Earnings So Much?
In Q1 2020, U.S. banks booked a combined $54 billion in provision for credit losses — roughly ten times the prior-year quarter — before …
Bank Peer Group Analysis: A Practical Guide
Tell someone a bank has a 3.5% [net interest margin](https://www.bankregreports.com/blog/what-is-net-interest-margin/) and you have told them almost nothing. Is that good? Depends entirely on whether …
Nonperforming Loans and the NPL Ratio: What the Number Actually Tells You
At the peak of the 2008 credit cycle, the industry-wide noncurrent loan rate hit 5.4% — nearly one in twenty loan dollars had stopped …
What Is the Net Charge-Off Rate? A Bank Credit Guide
In the fourth quarter of 2009, the net charge-off rate for U.S. commercial banks hit 3.0% annualized — a level that would be catastrophic …
What Is the FR Y-9C? A Practitioner's Guide to Holding Company Reports
Pull up JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. on the FFIEC call report and you see a $3.4 trillion institution. Pull up JPMorgan Chase & Co. …
ROA vs. ROE for Banks: Profitability Ratios Explained
The FDIC reported an aggregate industry ROA of 1.24% for Q4 2025. In that same quarter, dozens of community banks posted ROE well above …
What Is CECL? The Allowance for Credit Losses, Explained
In Q1 2020, JPMorgan Chase posted a $6.8 billion provision for credit losses — up from $1.5 billion the prior quarter. The bank's loan …