Fitzgerald Research Desk · credit-quality monitor

Charge-off and default signals before the portfolio conversation.

A loan-sale advisor’s weekly read of reported charge-offs, defaults, delinquencies, nonaccruals, reserve and provision context, recoveries when reported, and lender credit-quality disclosures.

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Reported bank fields

Credit-quality field explorer

20 of 20 verified reads · Q2 2026

The verified Q2 2026 20-bank detail sample surfaces the reported fields available for a credit-quality screen. It does not state that an institution is selling, that a portfolio is distressed, or that any price, recovery, or buyer demand exists.

Credit qualityCharge-offsReserve contextPortfolio context

Reported nonperforming-loan ratio for the verified bank-detail sample.

CoverageVerified priority detailFull-directory coverageSearch banksRegionAll regionsMidwestNortheastSouthWestAsset sizeAll reported assetsUnder $250B$250B to under $1T$1T and aboveNonperforming rangeAll NPL rangesNPL under 0.5%NPL 0.5%–under 1%NPL 1%–under 1.5%NPL 1.5%+Portfolio categoryAny reported categoryAutoC&ICommercial real estateConsumerCredit cardOtherResidential real estate
Northeast · Q2 2026

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

NY · CERT 33124

$758.79B
Nonperforming loans
1.04%
Net charge-offs / loans
0.27%
CET1 context
13.48%
Largest category
Other
Credit-quality lens1.04% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Other$163.30B
  • C&I$29.87B
  • Consumer$22.69B
  • Credit card$19.50B
Northeast · Q2 2026

The Bank of New York Mellon

NY · CERT 639

$425.12B
Nonperforming loans
0.04%
Net charge-offs / loans
-0.05%
CET1 context
14.56%
Largest category
Other
Credit-quality lens0.04% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Other$27.91B
  • Residential real estate$2.27B
  • Commercial real estate$1.88B
  • C&I$1.85B
Northeast · Q2 2026

State Street Bank and Trust Company

MA · CERT 14

$412.62B
Nonperforming loans
0.56%
Net charge-offs / loans
0.17%
CET1 context
14.72%
Largest category
Other
Credit-quality lens0.56% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Other$48.61B
  • C&I$1.32B
  • Commercial real estate$1.30B
Northeast · Q2 2026

Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association

NY · CERT 34221

$250.43B
Nonperforming loans
0.20%
Net charge-offs / loans
0.01%
CET1 context
24.99%
Largest category
Other
Credit-quality lens0.20% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Other$102.72B
  • Residential real estate$75.22B
  • Commercial real estate$5.42B
  • Consumer$496.0M
Northeast · Q2 2026

Citizens Bank, National Association

RI · CERT 57957

$232.52B
Nonperforming loans
1.36%
Net charge-offs / loans
0.37%
CET1 context
11.92%
Largest category
Residential real estate
Credit-quality lens1.36% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Residential real estate$37.43B
  • C&I$28.04B
  • Other$22.86B
  • Commercial real estate$14.17B
Midwest · Q2 2026

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

OH · CERT 628

$4.09T
Nonperforming loans
0.78%
Net charge-offs / loans
0.61%
CET1 context
15.03%
Largest category
Other
Credit-quality lens0.78% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Other$476.48B
  • Residential real estate$306.03B
  • Consumer$285.08B
  • C&I$241.85B
Midwest · Q2 2026

Citibank, National Association

SD · CERT 7213

$1.98T
Nonperforming loans
0.66%
Net charge-offs / loans
1.06%
CET1 context
13.79%
Largest category
Other
Credit-quality lens0.66% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Other$206.88B
  • Consumer$182.89B
  • Credit card$176.01B
  • C&I$165.62B
Midwest · Q2 2026

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

SD · CERT 3511

$1.91T
Nonperforming loans
1.04%
Net charge-offs / loans
0.40%
CET1 context
12.06%
Largest category
Other
Credit-quality lens1.04% reported nonperforming loans

Separate delinquency, nonaccrual, collateral, servicing, and tape segments before treating one ratio as a portfolio signal.

Largest reported categories
  • Other$270.14B
  • Residential real estate$223.46B
  • C&I$200.25B
  • Consumer$121.20B
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Loan-sale advisor framework

Six layers for reading credit quality without overreaching

Signal → source → diligence question
01

Charge-offs

Question: Are realized losses changing across like-for-like periods?

Source discipline: Reported net charge-offs, product mix, period labels, and source definitions

02

Defaults & delinquencies

Question: Where may early-stage or nonperforming pressure deserve a closer look?

Source discipline: Reported delinquency and nonaccrual fields where the source publishes them; no proxy is substituted

03

Nonaccruals

Question: Is a reported nonaccrual measure moving independently of charge-offs?

Source discipline: Direct Call Report or 5300 field lineage and a matched reporting period

04

Reserves & provisions

Question: What balance-sheet context should be reviewed before discussing an asset class?

Source discipline: Original filing or call-report reserve and provision disclosures; no allowance amount is inferred here

05

Recoveries

Question: Do reported recoveries change the loss narrative?

Source discipline: Directly disclosed recovery information only; no recovery estimate or valuation is created

06

Lender disclosures

Question: What does a lender’s own 10-K say about credit quality and lending activity?

Source discipline: Primary-source SEC EDGAR language, kept separate from bank and credit-union measures

This week’s credit-quality read

The current release: what is verified, and what remains a question

Published Oct 9, 2026
01

The Q3 feed is visible; the verified bank-detail baseline remains Q2

BankWatch reports a healthy Q3 2026 feed with 22 saved target banks and no stale targets. The feed-level label is current, but the target-record audit did not reconcile its raw source-period markers to the Q3 reporting date. Q3 bank charge-off, default, or nonaccrual comparisons therefore remain unpublished until the record-level lineage passes.

02

Charge-offs and nonperforming measures are questions, not conclusions

The verified bank layer begins with reported nonperforming-loan and net-charge-off fields, then asks whether delinquency, nonaccrual, reserve, provision, recovery, product-mix, and servicing detail support the same story. A public field is never treated as proof that a lender will sell or that a portfolio is distressed.

03

CU Watch, SEC EDGAR, and FRED add layers without blending metrics

CU Watch supplies a separate Q2 2026 NCUA 5300 full-universe layer. SEC EDGAR is used only for direct lender 10-K disclosures that pass a source review. FRED is prepared as macro context only after series, period, units, release timing, and retrieval date are documented. None of those layers becomes a bank-level transaction signal.

Advisor interpretation boundaryCredit-quality signals before a portfolio decision

A loan-sale advisor should read a reported charge-off or nonperforming measure as an opening question: what asset class is driving it, what is the population and cutoff date, are delinquencies and nonaccruals moving with it, what reserve or provision context appears in the original records, and what do the tape, servicing, documentation, collateral, and transfer conditions show? The public monitor helps frame that review; it does not identify a seller, price, recovery, or buyer.

Separate primary-source layer · SEC EDGAR

Lender credit-quality disclosures in recent 10‑Ks

2026-10-06 to 2026-10-09

This screen captures lender activity and credit-quality disclosure only from a direct SEC filing that passes the weekly source check. It is not a list of sale candidates and is never blended into BankWatch call-report or CU Watch 5300 measures.

No qualifying lender 10-K card in this edition

The completed SEC screen found no lender 10-K card that met the monitor’s direct-source and lender-activity validation standard for this edition. The next weekly screen remains review-gated; no issuer is inferred from a keyword match.

Matched bank history

Four periods of nonperforming and charge-off context

Q3 2025 through Q2 2026

One matched 20-bank population, read across four verified periods. The series is useful for trend context, not a forecast or an institution-level transaction conclusion.

Q2 2026Latest verified
Weighted NPL
0.82%
Weighted net charge-offs
0.69%

vs Q1 2026: nonperforming loans -8.4% · charge-offs -1.5%

Q1 2026Prior verified
Weighted NPL
0.89%
Weighted net charge-offs
0.70%

vs Q4 2025: nonperforming loans -2.7% · charge-offs -9.0%

Q4 2025Prior verified
Weighted NPL
0.92%
Weighted net charge-offs
0.77%

vs Q3 2025: nonperforming loans +0.1% · charge-offs -1.2%

Q3 2025Prior verified
Weighted NPL
0.92%
Weighted net charge-offs
0.78%

Baseline period for this historical window.

Nonperforming-loan ratio

Q3 2025Q4 2025Q1 2026Q2 2026
MidwestQ3 2025 1.0%Q4 2025 1.0%Q1 2026 1.0%Q2 2026 0.9%
NortheastQ3 2025 0.8%Q4 2025 0.8%Q1 2026 0.7%Q2 2026 0.7%
SouthQ3 2025 0.9%Q4 2025 0.9%Q1 2026 0.9%Q2 2026 0.8%
WestQ3 2025 0.9%Q4 2025 0.9%Q1 2026 0.8%Q2 2026 0.7%
Click a quarter to isolate it across both charts

Net charge-offs / loans

Q3 2025Q4 2025Q1 2026Q2 2026
MidwestQ3 2025 0.7%Q4 2025 0.7%Q1 2026 0.7%Q2 2026 0.7%
NortheastQ3 2025 0.3%Q4 2025 0.3%Q1 2026 0.1%Q2 2026 0.2%
SouthQ3 2025 0.8%Q4 2025 0.9%Q1 2026 0.9%Q2 2026 0.8%
WestQ3 2025 1.6%Q4 2025 1.6%Q1 2026 1.4%Q2 2026 1.3%
Click a quarter to isolate it across both charts

BankWatch Pro get_bank_history plus bounded get_bank_by_cert reads for missing bank-period records; same 20-bank population. Raw fields preserved as ASSET, NCLNLSR, RBC1RWAJ/RBCT1CER, and NTLNLSR. Q2 2026, Q1 2026, Q4 2025, and Q3 2025 are all represented for every selected bank.

Separate source layer · CU Watch

Credit-union charge-off and default context

Q2 2026 · verified full universe

The NCUA 5300 layer is intentionally separate from FDIC bank Call Reports. It surfaces reported nonperforming and net charge-off context across the credit-union universe; it does not rank sale candidates or imply portfolio availability.

Verified full-universe layer · CU Watch

Reported credit-quality context across 4,462 credit unions

Q2 2026 · 9 validated pages
Last verifiedOct 20, 2026REPDTE 202606304,462 unique charters

This source stays distinct from FDIC bank Call Report data. The full Q2 2026 CU Watch extract is normalized from reported 5300 fields, then grouped using stated U.S. Census-region denominators. It is a credit-quality context and screening layer—not a ranking of sale candidates, a default forecast, or an availability list.

Nonperforming loansNet-worth contextEarnings contextLiquidity contextPortfolio context

Reported NPL ratio, weighted by reported total loans. It is credit-quality context, not evidence of a sale candidate.

Northeast

982 credit unions0.33%

$339.2B reported assets · $234.8B reported loans

Midwest

1,222 credit unions0.29%

$483.9B reported assets · $347.8B reported loans

South

1,533 credit unions0.35%

$906.8B reported assets · $639.8B reported loans

West

714 credit unions0.23%

$671.6B reported assets · $473.4B reported loans

Paginated institution explorer

Search the verified Q2 2026 5300 extract

4,462 matching records · page 1 of 372
Search credit unionsRegionAll regions and territoriesNortheastMidwestSouthWestOther / territories
Midwest · IA · Charter 63124

1ST GATEWAY

$165.8M assets · $125.8M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.17%
Net worth
14.13%
Net C/O
0.12%
Midwest · IA · Charter 64878

5 STAR COMMUNITY

$50.6M assets · $37.9M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.46%
Net worth
8.42%
Net C/O
0.14%
Midwest · IA · Charter 64323

ACE

$7.6M assets · $1.7M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.00%
Net worth
19.54%
Net C/O
0.00%
Midwest · IA · Charter 64030

ADVANTAGE

$104.4M assets · $69.7M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
1.06%
Net worth
13.96%
Net C/O
-0.23%
Midwest · IA · Charter 65521

AEGIS

$26.0M assets · $17.3M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.41%
Net worth
16.00%
Net C/O
0.38%
Midwest · IA · Charter 62829

AFFINITY

$149.8M assets · $102.6M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.36%
Net worth
12.02%
Net C/O
0.34%
Midwest · IA · Charter 64886

AIM

$189.6M assets · $125.4M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.21%
Net worth
12.89%
Net C/O
0.19%
Midwest · IA · Charter 67831

ALLEN HOSPITAL PERSONNEL

$6.0M assets · $3.4M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.22%
Net worth
18.26%
Net C/O
0.29%
Midwest · IA · Charter 63268

ASCENTRA

$571.2M assets · $409.8M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.28%
Net worth
10.08%
Net C/O
0.33%
Midwest · IA · Charter 65239

BURLINGTON MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES

$4.6M assets · $3.4M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.10%
Net worth
14.49%
Net C/O
-0.03%
Midwest · IA · Charter 62878

CAPITOL VIEW

$45.4M assets · $25.9M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.00%
Net worth
18.39%
Net C/O
-0.05%
Midwest · IA · Charter 64868

CASEBINE COMMUNITY

$29.3M assets · $13.3M reported loans

Nonperforming loans
0.00%
Net worth
21.22%
Net C/O
0.10%
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Separate macro layer · FRED

Reviewed macro context for the weekly credit-quality read

Verified Oct 13, 2026

These reported FRED observations provide a broad credit backdrop only. They remain separate from BankWatch FDIC Call Report measures, CU Watch NCUA 5300 measures, and SEC EDGAR filings, and do not identify a lender, sale candidate, portfolio, buyer, price, recovery, or transaction outcome.

Reported FRED series · CORCCACBS

Charge-Off Rate on Credit Card Loans, All Commercial Banks

Quarterly · Seasonally Adjusted · Percent

3.82%Observation Apr 1, 2026
Prior reported observation
3.82% · Jan 1, 2026
Lineage
lin · retrieval vintage 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-01

Macro charge-off backdrop only; it does not replace institution, portfolio, or asset-level diligence.

Open FRED series

From signal to asset review

A reported credit signal starts a question. The tape answers it.

Confidential, role-specific next steps

Seller path

Turn a credit-quality question into a seller-readiness review.

  • Defined population and cutoff date
  • Reconciled tape, performance, and exception log
  • Transfer and servicing conditions known
Discuss a seller mandate

Buyer path

Qualify the acquisition process before file access.

  • Defined buy box and capital source
  • Diligence capacity and timing
  • Servicing and legal readiness
Submit acquisition criteria

Advisor path

Frame the asset-class question before outreach.

  • Reported signal and source period
  • Asset-level evidence and confidentiality scope
  • Buyer-market and execution context
Discuss a portfolio

Credit-quality research archive

Published charge-off and default briefings

Debt market outlook 2026

Next edition lensVerified charge-off, default, and lender disclosure context
Search briefingsKeywordAll keywordsQ3 2026 bank charge-offsbank charge-offsbank credit qualitybank defaultscredit union charge-offslender credit qualitynonaccrual loansnonperforming loansQuarterAll quartersQ3 2026 reviewQ2 2026RegionAll regionsMidwestNortheastSouthWestCredit signalAll credit signalsCredit qualityCharge-offsNonaccrualsReserves & provisionsLender disclosures

October 2026

Q3 2026 review

Q3 feed visible; charge-off and default analysis remains record-level gated

BankWatch: 4,388 institutions · 22 target records · Q3 source-period reconciliation open · 3 source-separated reads

Credit signalsCredit qualityCharge-offsNonaccrualsReserves & provisionsLender disclosures
Keywords
  • Q3 2026 bank charge-offs
  • bank defaults
  • nonaccrual loans
  • credit union charge-offs
  • lender credit quality
Open edition
Q2 2026

Q2 baseline — reported charge-offs and nonperforming loans set the starting context

22 configured BankWatch target banks · Q2 2026 reported fields · 3 source-separated reads

Credit signalsCredit qualityCharge-offsNonaccrualsReserves & provisions
Keywords
  • bank charge-offs
  • nonperforming loans
  • bank defaults
  • nonaccrual loans
  • bank credit quality
Open edition

Methodology & interpretation boundary

Fitzgerald Advisors reads reported BankWatch FDIC Call Report data, separate CU Watch NCUA 5300 data, and—when validated—separate SEC EDGAR and FRED materials as source-separated screening layers. A public credit-quality field does not establish distress, sale readiness, pricing, buyer appetite, recovery value, or transaction certainty. A specific portfolio tape, collateral, performance history, servicing, documentation, legal status, and transfer conditions govern any mandate review.

BankWatch
Full-directory count plus verified Q2 2026 detail for the 20-bank sample. Q3 record-level reconciliation remains open, so no Q3 bank ranking is implied.
CU Watch
Q2 2026 NCUA 5300 full-universe records remain a separate layer using stated Census-region denominators and reported fields only.
SEC EDGAR
Direct lender 10-K disclosures are primary-source research only. They are not blended into bank or credit-union ratios and do not imply a sale or transaction intent.
FRED
Macro observations require a documented series ID, units, period, release timing, retrieval date, and review before they can appear in a weekly briefing.
Official reference materialFDIC Call Report overviewFDIC current forms and instructionsFDIC public data downloadsNCUA Call Report / 5300 dataSEC EDGAR company filings

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