What is ‘Keefe Bank Index’
An index of regional bank and money centers. The Keefe Bank Index is compiled by Keefe, Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, an investment banking firm in New York City that focuses on banking stocks. The banks in this index are weighted according to capitalization.
Explaining ‘Keefe Bank Index’
The full name of the Keefe index is the KBW Bank Sector Index. This index is a common benchmark in the banking industry and trades on the Philadelphia Stock Exhange. The ticker symbol for this index is BK. The BK has been posted since the firm’s inception in 1962.
Further Reading
- Do local economic data improve off-site bank-monitoring models – heinonline.org [PDF]
- Financial reporting, supplemental disclosures, and bank share prices – www.jstor.org [PDF]
- Banking industry consolidation: Financial attributes of merging banks – heinonline.org [PDF]
- Establishing on-site bank examination priorities: An early-warning system using accounting and market information – www.jstor.org [PDF]
- Disaster Resilience Integrated Framework for Transformation (DRIFT): A new approach to theorising and operationalising resilience – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- The effects of underwriting practices on loan losses: evidence from the FDIC survey of bank lending practices – www.emerald.com [PDF]
- Climate change and disaster management – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
- The political economy of financial crisis policy – www.econstor.eu [PDF]
- Circumpolar Inuit health systems – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
