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TFS Financial Corp. Discusses its Loan Woes

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Given the paucity of filings on Friday, we couldn’t help but pay attention to the 10-K that TFS Financial Corp. (TFSL) filed. The company actually tried to sneak it in late Wednesday — around 6:30 pm. But the SEC was closed for Thanksgiving by then so it wound up getting accepted on Friday morning.
Granted, TFS [...]

Bank of America paid $1.2 billion to Merrill associates…

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

We hate to pick on Bank of America (BAC). Really we do. But we couldn’t help it after noticing something new and interesting buried deep in this amended 8K filed late yesterday. We’ll skip right to the good part:
Adjustments to record approximately $1.2 billion related to contractual change in control obligations included in historical Merrill [...]

Yet another TARP beneficiary…

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

It’s almost become akin to shooting fish in a barrel: find a TARP recipient — there’s over 400 of them now according to the latest report from Treasury — and then troll through their recent SEC filings to see how at least some of that money was spent on enriching an executive (or two). It’s [...]

TARP, ARRA and limits on pay…

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Tempting as it is to focus on the giant banks, like Citi (C) and Bank of America (BAC), I couldn’t help but notice this 8K filed by The South Financial Group (TSFG) late Friday. Over the past year, the South Carolina bank’s stock has declined by 95% and the stock is currently trading at under [...]

Down memory lane with the bankers…

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Inspired by yesterday’s marathon hearing that saw 8 of the nation’s top banking titans subjected to hours of Congressional questions, I decided to do a little wandering through some filings from a few years ago, when things were decidedly rosier.
It didn’t take that long for me to come across this filing from Golden West, which [...]