Nassim Taleb: Bad Risk Management & Poor Models Creates Systemic Risk
BBC Interview with Nassim Taleb on JPMorgan
Hat tip Jesse’s Cafe Americain
Tom Ferguson: Senate Banking Chair Calls Jamie Dimon to Testify -– But JP Morgan Chase is His Biggest Contributor!
By Tom Ferguson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Cross posted from Alternet
It’s good that the watchdog is barking, but we’d all better watch closely to see if it will bite.
More Evidence of Lax Oversight of JP Morgan Chief Investment Office
As reporters keep digging into the "London Whale" story, the picture that emerges about the caliber of risk controls and management supervision at JP Morgan only look worse and worse.
The undercollateralisation risk
Central counterparty clearing and settlement was always intended to make the financial system safer.If you use a CCP, the idea goes, you’re far more robustly protected...
Recovery Begins When Addiction Ends: An Open Letter to Jamie Dimon
By the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street
Dear Jamie Dimon:
We, the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street, are staging an intervention on your behalf.
Michael Crimmins: Why the Cops Should be Knocking on Jamie Dimon’s Door Soon
By Michael Crimmins, who has worked on risk management and Sarbanes Oxley compliance for major banks
The scandal surrounding JP Morgan's losses in its Chief Investment Office is not going away, and for good reason. Its trading book continues to lose money at an astounding rate. The most recent report estimates that the losses have...
Mirabile Dictu! The SEC Finally Investigates Magnetar
More than four years after Serena Ng and Carrick Mollencamp of the Wall Street Journal first took notice of the highly destructive ways of the Chicago hedge fund Magnetar, which created a series of toxic CDOs, the SEC finally appears to be taking a serious look at some of their deals.
Abigail Field: Jamie Dimon’s Hedge Fund
By Abigail Caplovitz Field, a freelance writer and attorney. Cross posted from Reality Check
Jamie Dimon, John Stumpf, and to a lesser extent, Vikram Pandit and Bryan Moynihan, are running massive hedge funds. They're placing enormous, incredibly risky bets.
“What Scares Me Isn’t $2 Billion Loss JP Morgan Made, What Scares Me is the Record $19 Billion in Profits”
Even with all the focus on JP Morgan's loss bomb in the past few days, some critical elements of the story have not gotten the scrutiny they deserve, and Amar Bhide fills those gaps.
Satyajit Das: Topiary Lessons – JP Morgan’s US $2 Billion Loss
By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010). Jointly posted with Roubini Global Economics
Having benefitted from risk management failures of others such...
“Everything is a Hedge”
The claim is being made that JP Morgan’s $2 billion trading loss was in a trade that was a “a hedge.” It doesn’t take much review to easily disprove that position. We first learned of this particular trade when they began to distort credit indices. Any trade so huge that it impacts its markets –...
Kopecki: JPMorgan Loss May Be `Tip of Iceberg’
Bloomberg’s Dawn Kopecki talks about JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $2 billion trading loss after what Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon calls an “egregious” failure in the firm’s chief investment office. Kopecki speaks with Er...
