Interest rate increases result in unrealized losses for held-to-maturity debt security investments, but these losses do not appear in the financial statements (as long as there are no impairment ...

Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) are fixed-income investments backed by mortgages on commercial properties rather ...

You actually had to have this stuff in reserve to be a "national bank" in the United States. A one-hundred dollar Civil War government bond is dated August 19, 1861. What is our debt crisis again? The ...

While many policy experts agree Social Security faces long-term financing challenges, they often disagree on a core part of ...

Many banks have reported significantly larger unrealized securities losses in 3Q as interest rates rose in the quarter. The unrealized losses have grown so large as to be orange flags for a few banks.

Technical debt is the accumulation of future costs that come with every IT product in your portfolio. For many IT leaders in banking, insurance and capital markets, managing technical debt is a ...