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- Memo to Congress: Please Stop Obsessing Over Bank Execs' Bonuses
- Tom Brown submits: The nine big banks that got the first slug of capital from the federal government are reassuring members of Congress notably Henry Waxman and Charles Schumer that, no, the money won’t fund executives’ yearend bonuses. Rather, bonuses will be paid for via “earnings and existing cash...
- External links 2008-11-05
- Kovacevich's Delayed Retirement: Bove's Criticism is Totally Off Base
- Tom Brown submits: The FT reports that Richard Kovacevich’s decision to stay on past retirement age at Wells Fargo is drawing fire from some analysts who have a history of praising his tenure as head of the bank. by Tom Brown
- External links 2008-11-06
- 'No Bank's Books Are Trusted': Bloomberg's Weil is Imagining Things
- Tom Brown submits: Twenty years ago, then-Wells Fargo WFC CEO Carl Reichardt impressed on me the distinction between the value of the cash flow a given asset will generate over time, and the market value of that same asset at any given moment. There can be a difference, and...
- External links 2008-11-10
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- Do we need dual regulators in financial services? Synergies in establishing a single regulator.
- Byline: Michael A Adams May 17, 2006 (Keeping Good Companies - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The present system of regulating the financial services sector is based on the 1997 Wallis report. Tom Brown, the CEO of Zurich Financial Services, said the Australian Prudential...
- Research articles 2006-05-17
- Why Is Everyone Blaming the CEOs? It's the Government's Fault
- Tom Brown submits: Barney Frank has done the impossible. He’s actually made Ken Lewis seem somewhat sympathetic. I didn’t get a chance to watch Lewis and the seven other financial services CEOs who went before Frank’s Financial Services Committee Wednesday. But I read their prepared...
- External links 2009-02-15
- Citi-Morgan Stanley Deal Is Good; Pandit's Press Release Is Not
- Tom Brown submits: It’s only mid-January, but I bet Tuesday night’s announcement of the Morgan Stanley MS - Citigroup C retail-brokerage joint venture will end up being the most pre-telegraphed in the financial services industry in 2009. It feels as if we’ve been hearing about the deal for a...
- External links 2009-01-15
- The Street's Take on Banks' Loss Reserve Adequacy Mainly Half-Baked
- Tom Brown submits: Lehman Brothers’ LEH annual financial services conference took place this week in New York; all ears were tuned in to what presenting banks have to say about credit quality. And why not? Credit costs will be the major driver of industry earnings at this point in the credit...
- External links 2008-09-10
- EU Moves to Regulate the Rating Agencies; SEC Should Follow Suit
- Tom Brown submits: It’s about time. European regulators have at last proposed rules to prevent the rating agencies (perhaps the biggest villains of this whole credit crackup, in my view) from ever again helping drive the global financial system into the abyss. Not a moment too soon! The rules...
- External links 2008-11-14
- Citigroup: The End Draws Near
- Vernon Hill submits: The end is nigh for yet another great American company: Citigroup C, once the greatest U.S. financial institution of them all. ...
- External links 2008-11-21
- Citi: Past the Point of No Return
- Vernon Hill submits: The end is nigh for yet another great American company: Citigroup C, once the greatest U.S. financial institution of them all. As Tom Brown and I have noted many times,...
- External links 2008-11-23
- Disclosure from Financials? I Call B.S.
- Dear John Thain submits: Disclosure and financial filings seem to be topical today with the S.E.C. announcing the Investment Banking Analyst Mercy Initiative [IDEA]. So, I’ll play ball. I have read a bunch of things recently making claims about the ability of a diligent investor to know what they...
- External links 2008-08-20
- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 01/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call Excerpt Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. STRM F4Q08 Earnings Call April 9, 2009 4:30 pm ET Executives Joe Diaz - Investor Relations, Lytham Partners J. Brian Patsy - President and Chief Executive Officer Don Vick - Interim Chief Financial Officer Joe Brown - Chief Information...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-09
- The Stunning Subprime Mess
- How bad is the subprime crisis? This from the New York Times, in the wake of the Swiss bank UBS announcing huge write-downs related to subprime mortgages: Banks worldwide have announced more than $135 billion in credit losses and write-downs since the...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- The Friday Round-Up
- The boss is coming! Look busy. Here is the City offers some tips on "how to look busy" even if you're not... But don't let yourself become too busy, lest it drive you to an early grave. Apparently, a senior car engineer at Toyota in Japan was clocking up an...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
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