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"No-one would be too surprised if Thread needle Street comes to resemble some latter-day Appian Way, lined with crucifixions of the bankers, brokers and traders who brought our economy to its knees" - Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith on the Bank of England. "I hate myself for ever...
Tags: Appian, Bank of England, banker, trader
Research articles 2008-10-22
Backlash against the bankers
Arcane Federal Reserve Board regulations don't typically generate outpourings of emotion from consumers. But its proposals to curb the most egregious abuses by credit card issuers drew a record 56,000 comments. In a typical letter, a woman from Corpus Christi, Texas, urged the Fed to "protect...
Tags: banker, Federal Reserve Board, Government, regulation, Regulations, regulator, Strategy
Research articles 2008-08-13
Bad credit mars Wall St. bankers' summer break
WASHINGTON AFP — July is usually a quieter month for busy Wall Street bankers, spent lounging poolside at the Hamptons or on a Caribbean beach, but a nagging credit crunch has cast a dark cloud over such vacations. Major US banks, including Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and...
Tags: America, analyst, bank, banker, Citigroup Inc., earnings, FINANCE, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., squeeze
Research articles 2008-07-08
Housing Expert and Former Goldman Sachs Banker Calls Current Financial Crisis a "Criminal" Enterprise on FOX News
John R. Talbott, best selling author of 2003's "The Coming Crash in the Housing Market" and his new book, "Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics," said on FOX News today that the current housing, mortgage and banking crisis was a vast criminal enterprise. Talbott said that...
Tags: banker, FINANCE, financial, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Mortgages
Research articles 2008-07-03
The Great Depression: contrary to conventional wisdom, the historical record shows that interventionist policies during the Hoover and FDR administrations caused and prolonged the Great Depression
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On October 29, 1929, the world turned upside down. For more than a month, stock prices, which had risen to giddy new levels throughout the decade now known as "the Roaring Twenties," had been faltering. Since early September, when stock prices peaked, the market had lost about...
Tags: administration, America, bank, banker, banking, depression, FDR, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, Government, inflation, Investment, Roosevelt, stock
Research articles 2008-06-23
Iowa bankers get update at annual group meetings
Iowa bankers conducted nine group meetings over a three-week period during the month of May. The annual series of meetings gives industry leaders in the state a platform to share information. Each meeting also gives participants an opportunity to play golf. Representatives from the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Department...
Tags: banker, Banking, FINANCE, Iowa, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2008-06-15
How times change: the ECB has become the very model of a modern central bank
I don't suppose many of my readers took part in the European Central Bank's tenth birthday celebrations last week -- but if I'm wrong about Jean-Claude Trichet's taste in columnists, then bon anniversaire, monsieur le président, though I can't quite bring myself to add beaucoup des retours heureux. It is...
Tags: bank, Bank of England, banker, Leadership
Research articles 2008-06-14
LEED AP accreditation expands beyond building industries
Professionals earning accreditation for their understanding of green-building practices and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED Green Building Rating System aren't limited to the architecture, construction, and engineering industries anymore. The U.S. Green Building Council, based in Washington, D.C., launched the LEED program 10 years ago as a...
Tags: agent, Associated Press, banker, certification, FINANCE, Insurance, knowledge, Quality, Strategy
Research articles 2008-06-13
Leeson 'thanks' fellow rogue trader Kerviel for profile boost
HONG KONG AFP — Disgraced banker Nick Leeson, who brought down Britain's oldest bank, on Tuesday joked that the rogue trader who rocked France's Societe Generale had helped revive his profile. Leeson, whose 1.5 billion dollars of failed trading forced the closure of Barings Bank in 1995, said Jerome...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, banker, Banking, France, Singapore, trader
Research articles 2008-06-03
The Best Modern Advice Harkens from the Past
When The Modern Bank was launched in midtown Manhattan in 2006, executives’ philosophy was that private banking is a relationship-driven business—and they knew many affluent clients weren’t getting the hand-holding they expected. How can a 45-employee institution compete with goliaths like JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Citi and HSBC?...
Tags: Bain, bank, banker, Banking, Citigroup Inc., HSBC, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Research articles 2008-05-01
U.S. Bank to Teach Children How to Be Savers for Life
MINNEAPOLIS -- Hundreds of U.S. Bank employees will meet with students in their local markets to teach them how to be savers for life during the 12th annual Teach Children to Save program on Tuesday, April 29. This event is sponsored by the American Bankers Association ABA Education Foundation. ...
Tags: American Bankers Association, banker, Banking, EDUCATION, FINANCE, Mortgages, U.S. Bancorp
Research articles 2008-04-29
Piper Jaffray to Significantly Build its Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications Banking Expertise with Addition of Four Senior Bankers
NEW YORK -- Piper Jaffray & Co. (NYSE: PJC) will significantly strengthen its media, entertainment and telecommunications investment banking capabilities with the addition of four new senior bankers, Robert Cockburn, Gregory Dawkins, Michael Hirsch and Peter Lombard. As a team, they will bring more than 50 years experience in the...
Tags: banker, entertainment, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, media, NETWORKING, Piper Jaffray & Co., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc.
Research articles 2008-04-14
Law joins NCNB.(KEEPING UP WITH PEOPLE)
North Cascades National Bank recently announced the addition of Kate Law to its staff. Law is a personal banker at the Wenatchee branch, 614 N. Mission St. A Washington State University graduate, Law is a Wenatchee native and most recently worked for Wells Fargo. ...
Tags: banker, Washington State University
Research articles 2008-04-01
McFadden: banker and controversial House leader.(Then & Now: 100th Anniversary 1908-2008)(Louis Thomas McFadden )
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nowadays ABA and other banking trade groups work hard to bring bankers to Washington. But Louis Thomas McFadden went most bankers better, not only bringing a bankers viewpoint to Capitol Hill, but bringing it right to the top of the House Banking...
Tags: bank, banker, Banking, Federal Reserve Board, leader, president
Research articles 2008-04-01
'Genie is out of the bottle'
ONE of the world's leading bankers, and a key adviser to last weekend's rescue of US investment bank Bear Stearns, has warned against knee-jerk reaction to the current crisis that would discourage future financial innovation, saying "corrective measures taken in haste often turn out to have unintended consequences". ...
Tags: banker, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., bottle, FINANCE, financial, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Leadership, Strategy
Research articles 2008-03-23
How A Quick Fix (HR 1151) Became A Long Battle (CURIA)
It started off as a single statement on a single page, before growing to 55 pages long and hundreds of pages of supporting materials. That’s how HR 1151, the Credit Union Membership Access Act, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on March 20, 2007. That’s how things...
Tags: banker, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-03-03
Chase to consolidate Utah HQ operations at One Utah Center
Chase, one of the nation's leading financial institutions, will bring together 100 bankers into a single location when it relocates its Utah headquarters to approximately 30,000 square feet at 201 S. Main St. in downtown Salt Lake City. The 100 bankers, employed by both Chase and JPMorgan, are presently scattered...
Tags: banker, Banking, FINANCE, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Utah
Research articles 2008-03-02
Federal usury law for service members: the Talent-Nelson Amendment
I. INTRODUCTION Imagine a nation currently involved in armed conflicts in two foreign countries. Now picture that nation having to revoke the security clearances of and possibly discharge active members of the armed forces because of their individual financial difficulties that, if not caused by, can be exacerbated by...
Tags: Banker, banking, borrower, creditor, Federal Reserve Board, financial, M., payday, regulation, Regulation, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2008-03-01
Wall Street Throws A Tantrum
In these turbulent times, traders are the tykes screaming and yelling and writhing on the floor until they get what they want. Monetary policy, the management of global companies and the workings of Wall Street are indisputably the realms of the mature: one searches the gallery of Federal Reserve...
Tags: bank, banker, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, trader
Research articles 2008-02-11
Our survival depends on grassroots mobilization.(ABA Chairman's Position)(Government Relations Summit )
THE SUPERBOWL IS OVER. AND THE primaries will soon be winding down. The next big event is the new ABA's Government Relations Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C., March 10-12th. Please mark your calendars and make your reservations to join me at...
Tags: bank, banker, Government, Regulations, regulator, U.S. Congress, Washington
Research articles 2008-02-01
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