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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 by pfriedman
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]
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 by Kevin LaCroix
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 by Ashby Jones
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]
16 Mar 2010, 11:32 am by Page Perry LLC
” The article pointed to the SEC's failure to detect the Madoff Ponzi scheme, its apparent unwillingness to investigate the warnings of Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos, its lack of oversight of credit-rating agencies, and its failures to address the practices that led to the collapse of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and the capital markets. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 10:26 am by By DEALBOOK
On the two-year anniversary of JPMorgan Chase's agreement to buy Bear Stearns, Alan C. [read post]
14 Mar 2010, 11:01 pm
Both Geithner and Paulson were intimately involved in attempting to broker a Bear Stearns-type bailout of Lehman. [read post]
13 Mar 2010, 8:45 am
What was it about Burry that enabled him to see what financial giants like AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch missed? [read post]
The Clearing House Association also presented six other examples of major financial institutions, such as Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, that failed or nearly failed due to rumors or reports of their financial weakness. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 12:47 pm by Page Perry LLC
POGO’s letter points out that securities industry Self Regulatory Organizations, in general, and FINRA in particular, have an “incestuous” relationship with the brokerage industry which is fraught with conflicts of interest, that FINRA has failed to prevent all the major brokerage scandals back to the 1980s, that FINRA has failed to regulate member firms at the heart of the financial crisis (Lehman, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch), and that FINRA has failed to detect… [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 8:16 pm by Buce
But I'll venture that sometime before the campaign is over, someone might let slip that the candidate is former Chief Economist of Bear Stearns--yes, that Bear Stearns, first off the cliff in the great meltdown, and first to have its hard landing softened by a great slug of taxpayer money (in this case, a $30 billion "loan" [heh!] [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 9:53 am by James Hamilton
To this point, they noted that the SEC has not yet brought a single enforcement case in the 2008 naked short selling incidents that helped take down Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, said the senators, and the new rule does not address that glaring problem.The senators were also dismayed that the Commission has never sought comments on a hard locate requirement for short sellers, even after eight senators pointedly made this suggestion last July and seven senators have co-sponsored… [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 2:29 pm by Page Perry LLC
The largest seeks rescission of $719 million in securities bought between March 2006 and September 2007 from former Bear Stearns Cos., which was bought by J. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 6:49 am by admin
  One by one Wall Street’s financial pillars – Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Fannie Mae – suffered bear raids. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 5:53 am
In March, there was the Sunday when the Federal Reserve announced an unprecedented action to lend $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase to buy Bear Stearns. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 5:53 am
In March, there was the Sunday when the Federal Reserve announced an unprecedented action to lend $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase to buy Bear Stearns. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 10:46 am
In her new guide for corporate management, Enterprise Security for the Executive: Setting the Tone From The Top, Jennifer Bayuk, former head of information security for Bear Stearns, contends that assaults on corporate security over the Internet continue to put valuable corporate assets at risk, and offers guidance for measuring, [...] [read post]