Ethan began his career on the repo desk at Dillon Read in 1981, and since then his career included senior positions in fixed income sales and trading, corporate bond research, and bank supervision. His experience spans multiple economic and interest rate cycles and includes work on key bank accounting and regulatory capital policies. He has analyzed banks based in the U.S. and abroad, and when he was a managing director in Corporate Bond research at Citigroup, he was recognized by Institutional Investor as a leading analyst for U.S. and Yankee banks. He regularly speaks at banking forums and his bank treasury dinners he has moderated across the country have become must-attend events.

Ethan founded the newsletter in 2004 to serve as a broad resource for investment portfolio, funding, and ALM managers, bank treasurers, CFOs, CEOs, and other banking professionals across the size spectrum of banks. In addition to these bank professionals, the newsletter is widely read in fixed-income trading and sales rooms, as well as by bank regulators, Federal Agency heads, accounting policymakers, credit and equity analysts, and portfolio managers, in the U.S. and abroad.

Most recently, Ethan has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, and ABA Banking Journal.