Rates, FX and positioning drive my single-stock work. Every call has an invalidation level.

The gap to global peers widened again this quarter while the earnings gap did not. What remains is a risk premium on process rather than on profits.



The savings target has been reiterated without a revised timeline. Reiterating the number while moving the date is how these programmes fail slowly.
Capital has been the constraint for three years and it stopped being one this quarter.
Interest-bearing deposit beta rolled over in the last disclosure and the mix shift out of non-interest-bearing has stopped. Net interest income guidance is set up to be raised.
Interest-bearing deposit beta rolled over in the last disclosure and the mix shift out of non-interest-bearing has stopped. Net interest income guidance is set up to be raised.
The bank cleared its required ratio with a buffer and the regulatory calendar is clear. What follows is distribution, and the payout is not in the multiple.
The market values this as a rate-sensitive balance sheet. Half the earnings no longer behave that way.
The cost base has been rebuilt and the revenue is arriving on top of it rather than alongside it.
The bank cleared its required ratio with a buffer and the regulatory calendar is clear. What follows is distribution, and the payout is not in the multiple.
Two of the three reasons for the historical discount have been addressed. The multiple has not moved.
A market multiple embeds a terminal growth rate and a discount rate. Both are currently at levels that require the other to be wrong.