Will That Be Credit?

Will That Be Credit?

US credit card rates should be capped at 10% for one year. Lenders have until January 20th, 2026, to comply. There is not very much more information about this, but the reasoning seems to be that fixing credit card rates at less than half of the current level will...
Overly Restrictive

Overly Restrictive

Parents of young adults might be familiar with this dilemma: there are certain ways you don’t want your kids to get in trouble, so you can either outright ban the behavior with a very high likelihood the young’uns are going to do it anyway but (try to) keep it from...
A Rare Glimpse of Systemic Risk

A Rare Glimpse of Systemic Risk

A camera catches a column of hand-written numbers as Sir David Attenborough narrates: Here, in the unforgiving embrace of the high peaks, a ghost of finance moves, the systemic risk, a creature so rightfully vilified its very existence seems a threat to our way of...
Data Matters

Data Matters

In our business—measuring financial risk in all its glorious variations—data is so absolutely foundational that it does not occur to us to imagine a world without it. But if we were to entertain that thought experiment, a world without data would be like a mind...