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16 Apr 2010, 9:42 pm
The case against two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, for example, turned out to hinge on horrific-sounding quotes that had very clearly been ripped out of a context that totally changed the implications. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 9:38 am
CDOs and synthetic CDOs are extremely complex investments which are at the heart of the Bear Stearns High Grade Funds cases our firm is handling. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 6:45 am
Morgan's purchase of Bear Stearns as a means for Bear Stearns to avoid bankruptcy and the need to make decisions in a matter of hours--not days or weeks. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 3:55 am
Those are the words that were printed on a large banner that hung above the cubicles at Ameriquest Mortgage in Sacramento, California, according to an ex-employee of the now defunct sub-prime mortgage banking lender that was shut down by Citigroup in 2007. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 3:00 am
It likely would not prevent a financial crisis (because the government's actual decision to winddown a firm would likely come after the crisis has already become, as in the Bear Stearns and Lehman cases, since the next crisis will most likely come from developments that catch regulators unawares or where regulatory capture by powerful banks has prevented the kind of indepth oversight that is necessary to apply this remedy as a preventive). [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 9:51 pm
But instead, I'll focus on the bleeding edge; it's worth pointing you to the FT roundup of banker criticisms of the rule, soon to be memorialized in pixels filed at Basel, and its summary of the rule that is pending:The liquidity proposals come in two parts: one, known as the Bear Stearns rule, requires banks to have enough liquid assets on hand to survive a 30-day crisis, while the other, nicknamed the Northern Rock rule, requires banks to have stable… [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 10:37 am
You may recall that JPMorgan Chase was one of those TBTF banks that benefitted enormously from having the US provide liquidity, pick up AIG's contract obligations to swap counterparties (like JPMorgan Chase) that otherwise would have resulted in much below-par payout, get a US guarantee for its acquisition of Bear Stearns (see JPMorgan Chase to Acquire Bear Stearns, JPMorgan website (Mar. 16, 2008)--allowing JPMorgan Chase to claim it was "standing… [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 8:08 am
Howard's background is distinguished, to say the least: Boston University BA and BS Boston University School of Law JD and Articles Editor, Boston University Law Review Partner at Cadwalader More than 20 years at Goldman Sachs And now a partner at Orrick, since June of 2008 (think about that timing for a moment-after Bear Stearns' collapse but before Lehman's). [read post]
4 Apr 2010, 4:13 pm
Cohan on the fall of Beqr Stearns. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 5:06 pm
On both sides of the Atlantic, regulators identified credit default swaps (CDS) as a central factor in the crisis that seized Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, American International Group (AIG), and ultimately global credit markets. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 5:00 am
A few years ago, if I had told you that Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, General Motors and Chrysler would be bankrupt, out of business or owned by the US Government, you would have laughed. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 1:56 am
The New York Federal Reserve made new disclosures late Wednesday about the assets of Bear Stearns and American International Group that it acquired in the course of the subprime mortgage and financial crises. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 9:37 am
., Bear Stearns Cos., Bank of America Corp, Societe General, Wachovia Corp (bought by Wells Fargo), former Citigroup Inc. unit Salomon Smith Barney, and two General Electric financial businesses. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 7:37 am
The Bear Stearns lawsuit, originally filed by Mr. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 2:40 am
Sixth, the bill would extend orderly wind-down authority currently held by the FDIC with respect to commercial banks, to cover other large financial firms as well -- huge, systemically integrated nonbank securities firms such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers until recently were -- most of which now pose systemic risks to the broader economy quite as fully as commercial banks do. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 12:38 pm
Six years earlier, while working for Bear Stearns, a client accused Adler of churning, overconcentration, constructive fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 12:04 pm
And I have data to back me up: In a study late last year, three Harvard Law School researchers examined public documents to assess whether one “standard narrative” of the crash was true — that “the meltdown of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers largely wiped out the wealth of their top executives. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 7:03 am
During 2000-2007, the top executives’ aggregate bonus compensation reached (in 2009 dollars) $300 million at Bear Stearns and $150 million at Lehman. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 3:02 am
Major financial institutions like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers imploded as a consequence of the financial dislocation. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 8:02 am
One possible explanation provided by the Post: The Repo 105 moves were conducted after Bear Stearns collapsed and took place while the Federal Reserve and other Wall Street regulators were, in the words of the Post, “inside Lehman monitoring the firm’s activities amid worry of another Wall Street meltdown. [read post]
