Financial Services >> Sector Roundtables >> May 20, 2002
TERRY J. MCEVOY is Vice President - Research at Fahnestock & Co.
Prior to Fahnestock, he was a Bank Analyst at Tucker Anthony
Capital Markets from 1996 to 2001. Mr. McEvoy is a CFA and Vice
President, Education, for the Maine Chapter of the Boston
Security Analysts Society. He received his BA degree in
Economics/International Relations from the University of
Massachusetts. Profile
STEPHEN L. COVINGTON is First Vice President - Financial
Institutions Research at Stifel, Nicolaus & Company. He was
previously employed at Baird, Kurtz & Dobson, and Boatmen's
Bancshares, Inc. He is a CFA and CPA (not licensed) and a member
of AIMR, the St. Louis Society of Financial Analysts, the
American Institute of CPAs and the Missouri Society of CPAs. He
received a BS in Accounting from the University of Missouri at
Columbia. Profile
JOSEPH A. STIEVEN is Senior Vice President and Director of the Financial
Institutions Research Group at Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. Mr.
Stieven formally established the company's coverage of the bank and
thrift industries when he joined Stifel in 1985. He is widely quoted by
both regional and national publications and has been a member of the
Wall Street Transcript's Midwest Regional Banking Panel in each of the
past 15 years. In addition, he has been recognized as the top analyst in
the country for the Midwest region by the American Banker. He has worked
on over 100 bank and thrift transactions over the past decade.
Additionally, he has managed nine financial institution equity trusts,
raising over $200 million and gaining national recognition. Prior to
joining Stifel, Nicolaus, he was an analyst/examiner with the Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He was responsible for designing and
programming the cash flow analysis programs which were used by the
Federal Reserve in reviewing merger/acquisition applications. He holds a
BSBA and an MBA, both with concentrations in finance, from the
University of Missouri-St. Louis. He previously has or currently serves
on the Board of Directors of Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, the University
of Missouri-St. Louis Alumni Business Board, and the St. Louis
University High School Advancement Board. Profile
JAMES R. BRADSHAW is a Vice President, Senior Research Analyst at
D.A. Davidson & Co. He joined DADCO after seven years with
Pacific Crest Securities, where he headed the financial services
practice for the firm. Over that period, he provided research
coverage on bank and thrift stocks located throughout the West.
Prior to that, Mr. Bradshaw was a Commercial Bank Examiner with
the State of California Banking Department. He holds both a BS
and an MBA from the University of Oregon. Profile
TWST: Terry, how do you define regional banks at Fahnestock? Whatareas do you focus on?
Mr. McEvoy: Here at Fahnestock we focus our research efforts on
banks headquartered in the Midwest