About Cardintel

Cardintel is an independent research desk covering US consumer card issuers. Our team includes former bank analysts, risk professionals, and capital markets researchers. We publish daily.

What we cover

Peer financials for every public US card issuer, monthly master trust performance for active credit card ABS vehicles, macro overlays across thirty Federal Reserve and Treasury series, and the full universe of active US consumer card products.

Our sources

SEC EDGAR for issuer financials and ABS filings. FFIEC Central Data Repository for Call Reports and Y-9C holding company data. FRED, BLS, and the New York Fed for macroeconomic series. Issuer websites and public filings for the card product database.

Editorial posture

We write institutionally. We do not name analysts. We do not run a founder profile. We publish numbers, not personalities. If you need to reach the editors, write to editor@cardintel.co.

Press

We are happy to share data for stories with attribution to Cardintel. We do not do founder interviews.