Christopher Whalen
R. Christopher Whalen is co-founder and managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics, where he is responsible for sales, business development and editorial activities. He has worked as an investment banker, research analyst and journalist for more than two decades, covering sectors including technology and financial institutions.
After a decade providing risk management and loan workout services to multinational companies and government agencies operating in Latin America, Mr. Whalen in 1997 became an investment banker in the M&A group of Bear, Stearns & Co. and later Prudential Securities, where he focused on the technology sector.
In addition to editing the newsletter, The Institutional Risk Analyst, Mr. Whalen contributes regularly to publications such as Barron's, The International Economy and The American Banker. Mr. Whalen is a member of Professional Risk Managers International Association and authors a blog on regulation and risk management on the www.primia.org web site.
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Christopher Whalen's Latest Articles
- An Involuntary Transaction: Why BAC + CFC May Never Close
- Are Countrywide Financial Bond Holders Bankruptcy Remote?
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The Subprime Three -- Rubin, Summers & Greenspan
on Apr 28, 2008
- Should Alan Schwartz Be Citigroup's Next CEO?
- Pain in the Heartland: National City Bank
- Iceland Under Siege; Corrigan Group Redux
- Large OTC Markets + Excessive Leverage + FVA = Systemic Risk
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Is WaMu the Next Bear Stearns?
on Apr 09, 2008 about WM
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Welcome to the Subprime Dead Pool
on Apr 03, 2008 about FMT
- Novated Bears and the Education of Ben Bernanke
- JP Morgan Rolls the Fed of New York (and BSC)
- GSE Nation: Interview with Robert Feinberg
- A Deflating Bubble Can Lift All Boats
- Interview with Joseph Mason: No True Sale with Prime Brokers, Hedge Funds
- Wachovia, Clear Channel and Fair Value Madness
- Sleepless in MuniLand: Interview With David Kotok
- MBIA: Is Fair Value Accounting a Good Deal for Investors?
- Exposures at Default: Wachovia and Washington Mutual
- Rogue Traders and Economic Capital
- Are Countrywide Financial Bonds Bankruptcy Remote?
- Is There A Bull Case for U.S. Financials?
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Subprime: We Have Nothing to Fear But Forbearance
on Dec 12, 2007 about WFC
- Wells Fargo Can Hack Its Writedowns - Can Citi and JPMorgan?
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Citigroup: How do You Value Systemic Risk?
on Nov 27, 2007 about C
- The Moral Hazard of Subprime Risk
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eXtensible Business Reporting Language: Can the SEC Mandate a Business Case?
on Nov 05, 2007
- Basel II: Do Big Banks Need More Capital?
- Enron, Subprime and the Derivative Disease
- Will Intangibles Kill the TD-Commerce Bancorp Merger?
- TD Buys Commerce Bancorp: Is Bigger Necessarily Better?
- Death of a Business Model: NetBank
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Foreclosure at Default or Why Ratings Are Not the Problem
on Sep 17, 2007 about JPM
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