BanxQuote explained

BanxQuote
Type:	Private
Foundation:	New York, New York (1984)
Location:	White Plains, New York, United States
Key People:	Norbert Mehl, Founder & CEO
Industry:	Banking Financial services
Products:	Banking and Loan Rates
Homepage:	www.banxquote.com

BanxQuote was a provider and licensor of indexes and analytics, which were used as a barometer of the U.S. banking and mortgage markets. Its bank rate website and consumer banking marketplace featured daily updated market rates on banking, mortgage and loan products in the United States, until its close in 2010.

History and activities

BanxQuote was established by its parent BanxCorp in 1984, and its Internet operations were launched at a BanxQuote National Banking Conference held at Salomon Brothers in New York, on April 7, 1995.^[1]

Clients of the firm have included hundreds of financial institutions nationwide and its indexes were frequently used as a trusted source and performance benchmark by public policymakers, government agencies, major banks and corporations.

BanxQuote operated an online national banking marketplace for 15 years, until its exit in 2010.

It featured rates on money market accounts, savings and jumbo certificate of deposit (CDs), mortgage loans, home equity and auto loans for various terms and amounts.

BanxQuote also provided proprietary state-by-state, regional, and national composite benchmarks for its various banking and lending products. Clients of the firm have included hundreds of banks and financial institutions nationwide. In 1985, The Wall Street Journal started featuring BanxQuote for 17 consecutive years.

BanxQuote on Bloomberg Terminal

BanxQuote current and historical proprietary data, indices, charts and analytical tools were available on Bloomberg Terminals from 1995 until its exit from the market in 2015, reaching over 250,000 financial market professionals worldwide.

The BanxQuote Index, Trademark and Performance benchmarks

The Dow Jones Barron's Dictionary of Banking Terms defines the BanxQuote Money Market Index(tm) as an "Index of rates paid by investors on negotiable certificates of deposit and high yield savings accounts, compiled weekly by BanxCorp. The index offers a side-by-side comparison of rates paid by selected banks and savings institutions on small-denomination (under $10,000) savings accounts."^[2]

The BanxQuote Conforming-Jumbo Mortgage Index(tm) is typically used to analyze the historical spread between national average conforming and jumbo mortgage rates.

BanxQuote licenses its registered trademark, proprietary indices, data, analytical tools, and financial applications to third parties.

Case studies

• AAA (American Automobile Association) Money Markets & CDs ^[3]
• General Electric Capital Corp. — GE Interest Plus ^[4]
• Ford Interest Advantage Notes issued by Ford Motor Credit Company ^[5]
• Bloomberg Professional terminals worldwide
• UBS, one of the world's leading financial institutions ^[6]
• Discover Bank, part of Discover Financial Services ^[7]
• Countrywide Bank ^[8]
• MetLife Bank, a subsidiary of MetLife, Inc.^[9]
• Capital One Direct Banking ^[10]
• Charles Schwab & Co.^[11]
• Zions Bank ^[12]

Usage

BanxQuote data are cited by various government agencies, policy makers, [GSEs], Non-Profit and Religious Organizations, and economists, such as outlined below.

U.S. government agencies

• The White House Council of Economic Advisers
• U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ^[13]
• U.S. Department of the Treasury ^[14]
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ^[15]
• William Poole (Federal Reserve Bank president), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis^[16]
• Government Finance Officers Association ^[17]
• Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO)
• Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) - Selected Asset and Liability Price Tables; As of June 30, 2007 ^[18]

Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs)

• The Role of Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ^[19]
• Freddie Mac Provides Stability to the Mortgage Market.^[20]
• Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Working Paper: Measuring the Benefits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Consumers ^[21]

Foundations, non-profit, judiciary, and religious organizations

• F.B. Heron Foundation ^[22] - has established performance benchmarks for each asset class in its mission-related portfolio. The benchmark for deposits is the national average for two-year jumbo deposits as reported by BanxQuote.
• Michigan Court, Michigan Judicial Institute - CitiStreet Investing Webcast ^[23]
• Diocese of Monterey, California ^[24] In 2007, the bishop of Monterey established a policy that all funds of the Monterey diocese deposited in its Cash Management and Deposit and Loan programs would earn a rate tied to the BanxQuote Money Market Rate.

External links

• BanxQuote.com website
• BanxCorp corporate website

Notes and References

1. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-16782234.html Launch of BanxQuote.com; 1995 BanxQuote National Banking Conference at Salomon Brothers
2. http://www.answers.com/topic/banxquote-money-markets-index?cat=biz-fin BanxQuote Money Markets Index as defined by Barron's
3. News: AAA Money Markets & CDs by Discover Bank. On January 1, 2008 AAA launched a High-Yield Savings Program with Discover Bank aimed at its nearly 51 million members, using the BanxQuote Index as a performance benchmark..
4. News: GE Interest Plus uses BanxQuote Index as a performance benchmark. .
5. News: Ford Interest Advantageises BanxQuote data asa benchmark . 2008-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080418022956/http://www.fordcredit.com/interestadvantage/account_comparison.jhtml . 2008-04-18 . dead.
6. http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/wealth/Investing/TraditionalInvestments/TaxableFixedIncome/CertificatesofDeposit/CDRates.html UBS.com CD Rate Comparison Tool Powered by BanxQuote
7. http://www.discoverbank.com Discover Bank uses BanxQuote Index as a performance benchmark.
8. http://about.countrywide.com/PressRelease/PressRelease.aspx?rid=872336 Countrywide Bank Launches Online SavingsLink Account; BanxQuote Index used as benchmark
9. http://www.metlifebank.com/ MetLife Bank - National Average APY information is provided by Banxquote.com
10. Web site: Capital One uses BanxQuote National Average APYs as a performance benchmark . 2008-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080530233550/http://www.capitalone.com/directbanking/ . 2008-05-30 . dead .
11. http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investment_products/cds_money_markets/funds/market_rates.html?cmsid=P-1000049&lvl1=investment_products&lvl2=cds_money_markets&refid=P-1050949&refpid=P-993678 Charles Schwab - Market Rate Report, CD rates provided by BanxQuote
12. Web site: Zions Bank uses BanxQuote Index as a performance benchmark. . 2008-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080516122049/http://www.zionsbank.com/imma.html . 2008-05-16 . dead .
13. https://web.archive.org/web/20050226141532/http://banking.senate.gov/_files/sanders.pdf U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, testimony cites BanxQuote
14. https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/wsj080501_HousingPresentation.pdf U.S. Department of the Treasury, May 2, 2008, The Administration's Housing Presentation, pg 7, BanxQuote Mortgage Rate Spreads
15. Web site: FDIC Quarterly Outlook Chart - Average Yields by BanxQuote . 2008-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081012115443/http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/regional/ro20051q/na/2005spring_04_dlink2.html . 2008-10-12 . dead .
16. http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/99/03/9903wp.pdf Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review; Mar 1, 1999; Monetary policy rules? by William Poole, President
17. https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-19153289 Government Finance Review; Dec 1, 1996; Using the Internet to assist investment decisions, by Paul Zorn
18. http://www.ots.treas.gov/docs/1/18720.pdf OTS Price Tables, pg. 31 based on data from BanxQuote
19. http://www.freddiemac.com/corporate/about/policy/faq_role.html Why Freddie Mac is Still Needed (Source of Conforming-Jumbo Mortgage Spread: BanxQuote
20. http://www.freddiemac.com/corporate/about/policy/faq_stability.html How Freddie Mac Provides Stability to the Mortgage Market (Source of Conforming-Jumbo Mortgage Spread: BanxQuote
21. Web site: Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper, Jumbo-Conforming Mortgage Spread based on BanxQuote data . 2008-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060830184219/http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/papers/05/0536.pdf . 2006-08-30 . dead .
22. http://dallasfed.org/ca/events/2005/05wallstreet_starr.pdf F.B. Heron Foundation - Use of BanxQuote Performance Benchmark for Mission-Related Portfolio
23. http://courts.michigan.gov/mji/webcast/Retirement_summer_07/BasicInvesting0407.pdf Michigan Court, Michigan Judicial Institute - Summer 2007 CitiStreet Investing Webcast, pg 3, BanxQuote Avg. Returns
24. http://www.dioceseofmonterey.org/documents/21237/chap9.pdf Diocese of Monterey 2007 Cash Management and Deposit and Loan programs tied to BanxQuote Money Market Rate