WAL vs DMAC Comparison

Western Alliance Bancorporation is a Las Vegas-based holding company with regional banks operating in Nevada, Arizona, and California. The bank offers retail banking services and focuses on mortgages for retail customers and commercial loans. The company's reportable segments are Commercial segment includes provides commercial banking and treasury management products and services to small and middle-market businesses, specialized banking services to sophisticated commercial institutions and investors within niche industries, as well as financial services to the real estate industry. Consumer Related segment offers both commercial banking services to enterprises in consumer-related sectors and consumer banking services, such as residential mortgage banking and Corporate & Other.

DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in developing treatment for ischemic diseases with two main clinical programs focused on acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and preeclampsia (PE). Its main product candidate DM199 (rinvecalinase alfa) is a recombinant form of human tissue kallikrein-1, which is a synthetic version of the naturally occurring protease enzyme kallikrein-1 and a rhKLK1 undergoing clinical development studies in both AIS and PE. The other product candidate in the company's pipeline is DM300, its patented recombinant human ulinastatin, a broad-spectrum serine protease inhibitor, being developed as a potential therapy for severe acute pancreatitis.