London Whale
What JPMorgan's Recently Released Internal Reports Unintentionally Say
Submitted by Emily Walsh on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 2:11pm
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John Fullerton After apologizing at Davos - but only to his shareholders - according to William Cohan on the Bloomberg View, the JPMorgan Chairman and CEO hastened to add about 2012, “We did have record profits. Life goes on.”
It is true; JPMorgan reported a strong financial performance in 2012, “London Whale” trading fiasco notwithstanding. I must admit that despite my 18 years inside the firm (when it had a meager $300 billion balance sheet), I struggle to comprehend $100 billion of revenues, and a $2.3 trillion balance sheet, with an “off-balance sheet” managed by a few handfuls of mostly male, mostly thirty something traders that is many orders of magnitude larger. Maybe I’m a dinosaur. Life goes on.
Not so fast.
Is Jamie Dimon's Business First Class?
Submitted by Dan Thompson on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:47pm
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John Fullerton JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon will today, once again, stand before the authors of Dodd-Frank and attempt to make the case for why a $2 billion trading loss was a stupid mistake, not a willful breach of at least the intent of the law. Our representatives who wrote the law should hold him to the standards set by JPMorgan’s own Code of Conduct: following the spirit and intent, not just the letter, of the law.
When Mr. Dimon’s predecessor J.P. Morgan Jr. was called before the Senate in 1933, he spoke humbly of a banker as a member of a long-standing profession for which there had grown a code of ethics and customs, “on the observance of which depend his reputation, his fortune, and his usefulness to the community in which he works.”
