Bad Bankers
Citigroup Hit With $400 Million Fine Over AML Failures That Led To Mike Corbat’s Downfall
The Comptroller of the Currency has finally handed down its punishment for the compliance failures that helped bring about an end to the tenure of Citibank CEO Michael Corbat. After Citi announced that Corbat would be replaced by Jane Fraser, who will soon become the first CEO of an American megabank, it was revealed that…
Read MoreThe SEC Is Making Deutsche’s CEO Personally Responsible For Bank’s Crimes
Since launching its last major international expansion push in the late 1990s, Deutsche Bank has become knonw – particularly over the last ten years – for manipulating markets (most recently in the precious metals “spoofing” scandal in the US) and aiding countless oligarchs and criminals in their money laundering endeavors, among other transgressions. The bank has…
Read MoreEx-JPMorgan Trader Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison For FX Bid-Rigging
Two years after former HSBC head of currency trading, Mark Johnson, became the first person to be convicted in a global crackdown of currency rigging and was sentenced to two years in a U.S. prison, moments ago a former JPMorgan trader became the second person to be sentenced to eight months in prison for his…
Read MoreNoted Investor Warns Trump If He Doesn’t “Shut Down” Entire Country for 30 Days
Due to coronavirus, we will lose “America as we know it”… While a number of experts have already warned that the impact of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) on the United States is expected to be tremendously negative, a respected hedge fund manager sounded an even louder alarm on Wednesday. In an interview with CNBC, Bill Ackman,…
Read MoreThe Blood Bath Has Begun
Don’t forget, the Spanish Flu pandemic lasted from January 1918 to December 1920. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Fear of the coronavirus is causing shutdowns on a global scale like we have never seen before. Just about every major sporting event that you can think of has been either canceled or postponed, schools and universities are keeping students away,…
Read MoreBlain: “Step Back, Hunker Down, Get Ready…”
“Vulgar, but not a vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.” Perhaps it’s time to think about the unthinkable and close markets for a few weeks? Today we might be seeing a rash of desperate new efforts by central banks to promise liquidity to Treasuries, to pump money into stocks and shares in Norway and Japan……
Read MoreA Shift In The Global Financial Order Is Upon Us
The collapse in bond yields, exacerbated by the crash in oil prices, marks an end to the era of trust in central banks… OPEC+: A 24-Hour View Coronavirus. That will be the first and last time this column mentions that word. Despite the weekend’s many developments in the epidemic, there is a new issue to drive…
Read MoreFormer Co-Head Of Investment Banking At Goldman Asia Banned For Life By The Fed
Former Goldman Sachs partner Andrea Vella has been barred from the industry over his involvement in the Malaysian investment fund scandal known as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a press release from the Federal Reserve said Tuesday. Vella, a former the Goldman Sachs’ co-head of investment banking for the Asia Pacific, was placed on leave in 2018 after…
Read MoreFed Policy And The Wuhan Coronavirus
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Abe Maslow, the same fellow who developed the “hierarchy of needs” paradigm in human psychology, popularized that phrase to warn scientific researchers about the perils of using tools inappropriate to the task at hand. It is an especially relevant observation when it comes to…
Read MoreBernanke Hints At Negative Rates, “Purchases Of Private Securities” To Fight Next Recession
…We can’t rule out the possibility that, at some point in the next few years, our economy will slow, perhaps significantly. How would the Federal Reserve respond? What tools remain in the monetary toolbox? By Ben Bernanke First steps for easing policy …Given where we are today, how would the Fed respond to a hypothetical economic…
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