Dodd-Frank
Is Jamie Dimon's Business First Class?
Submitted by Dan Thompson on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:47pmJPMorgan 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.”
Standing Up for the SAFE Banking Act
Despite the financial crash of 2008 and the passage of the subsequent Dodd-Frank reform bill, not enough has been done thus far to address the issue of too big to fail banks. With assets equivalent to 64% of GDP concentrated amongst six of the largest Wall Street banks today, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has recently introduced the Safe, Accountable, Fair & Efficient Banking Act of 2012. The bill, which has wide-ranging support from the likes of former the Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Republican ranking member on the Banking Committee Richard Shelby, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Richard Fisher, FDIC Board member Thomas Hoenig, Former Chairman of the FDIC Sheila Bair, economist Simon Johnson, Stanford finance professor Anat Admati, and former governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, was introduced by Senator Brown prior to a hearing entitled “Is Simpler Better? Limiting Support for Financial Institutions.” It seeks to impose strict limits on institutions' deposit and non-deposit liabilities and requires them to hold considerably more capital, reducing their leverage. In short, the bill seeks to break up big banks and prevent them from putting the nation’s economy at risk.
10 Questions JPMorgan’s Board of Directors Should be Asking
Submitted by Dan Thompson on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 1:25pm- Credit Default Swaps
- Credit Default Swaps
- Dodd-Frank
- Dodd-Frank
- Hedging
- Hedging
- Jamie Dimon
- Jamie Dimon
- JPMorgan
- JPMorgan
- Long Term Capital Management
- Long Term Capital Management
- LTCM
- LTCM
- Proprietary Trading
- Proprietary Trading
- Risk
- Risk
- Too Big to Fail
- Too Big to Fail
- Too Big To Manage
- Too Big To Manage
- Value at Risk
- Value at Risk
- VaR
- VAR
Much has been written about the trading—not hedging—debacle at JPMorgan. Jamie Dimon’s mea culpa is intended to head off deeper questions. No cover-up on his watch—get out in front, be direct, deal with it, move on. Right? Not so fast.
