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10 Oct 2010, 8:11 am by Mandelman
Apparently, JPMorgan Chase also has quite a bit of robo-signing going on back at its headquarters as well. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 6:05 pm by Mandelman
And then there’s Maiden Lane I, Maiden Lane II, and Maiden Lane III… three Limited Liability Companies that the Fed formed to buy up the assets (read: mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps) of Bear Stearns, WaMu, and AIG that JPMorgan Chase and no one else for that matter wanted. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 9:22 am by James Hamilton
Investors were afraid to trade as Bear Stearns, AIG, and Lehman Brothers failed because any new transaction could expose them to more riskIn an effort to address the systemic risk to the financial markets posed by derivatives, the Senate legislation would mandate, for the first time, the federal regulation of derivatives under a dual SEC-CFTC regime that emphasize transparency. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 4:58 pm by Mandelman
  The Big Players are General Motors, Chrysler, Lehman Brothers,   Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual and Countrywide. [read post]
23 May 2010, 2:23 pm by Mandelman
Oh, and by the way… New Castle Partners was the equity hedge fund group at Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 8:08 am by Anthony Lake
A CDO is an asset-backed security which derives its value from underlying assets. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 9:42 pm by Steve Bainbridge
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]
14 Apr 2010, 3:55 am by Mandelman
” “Washington Mutual built a conveyor belt that dumped toxic mortgage assets into the financial system like a polluter dumping poison into a river. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 3:00 am by LindaMBeale
  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, 10:37 am by LindaMBeale
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]
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]
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]
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]
5 Feb 2010, 6:05 am by Hal Scott, Harvard Law School,
None of the most prominent failures of the financial crisis—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bear Stearns, or Lehman Brothers—were deposit-taking banks. [read post]
The five units will be as follows: The Asset Management Unit to focus on investment advisers, investment companies, hedge funds and private equity funds; The Market Abuse Unit to focus on large-scale market abuses and complex manipulation schemes by institutional traders, market professionals and others; The Structured and New Products Unit to focus on complex derivatives and financial products, such as credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and other securitized products;… [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 12:25 pm by Nick Li
Back in 2006 it seems like the industrialized world had achieved a consensus on monetary policy. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 7:44 am by admin
We all know its major effects - the stimulus bill, President Obama's election, the GSE conservatorship, and the shotgun marriage of Bear Stearns, to name a few. [read post]
13 Dec 2009, 7:22 am
Investment trusts, labor unions, pension funds, local municipalities, school boards and charitable foundations, required by law in most states to only invest in prudent, and otherwise conservative fixed income securities and preferred shares, have collectively lost tens of billions in the securities of Wachovia, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 4:07 pm
Bear Stearns - the government's engineering of a sale was of little comfort to former CEO Jimmy Cayne, whose billion dollar fortune declined 90% in value. [read post]