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Search Results for: JPMorgan
JPMorgan Gobbles Lion’s Share From Federal Home Loan Banks – a Program Meant to Aid Small Housing Lenders
By Pam Martens: September 18, 2013 On June 24 of this year, Senator Elizabeth Warren was incensed. She wrote to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the federal regulator of the Federal Home Loan Banks as well as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Warren had just learned that Sallie Mae, a Fortune 500 company engaged in making private student loans, had obtained an $8.5 billion line of credit from a Federal Home Loan Bank. Sallie Mae had been borrowing on its line of credit at 0.23 percent, then making student loans at 25-40 times that rate according to Warren. Warren reminded the federal regulator that “Congress established the Federal Home Loan Bank System to serve as a reliable source of funding to local banks and other community lenders that offer families home mortgages.” Warren cited a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau showing that significant levels of student debt … Continue reading
JPMorgan Offers a Drop in the Bucket for Its “Tempest In a Teapot”
By Pam Martens: September 17, 2013 Since last evening, corporate media has been in a fierce competition to spin another toothless settlement on Wall Street as a win for the new tough cop on the beat, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair, Mary Jo White. It takes quite the creative imagination to frame this as anything more than the continuance of Wall Street’s business model of looting billions and paying back millions. Crime is still the best profit center Wall Street has going for it — having thoroughly dissuaded its customers against trusting its advice on investments. According to leaks, the settlement tab to JPMorgan Chase to make most of its civil regulatory problems disappear regarding the London Whale trades will be $700 to $800 million. (There still may be open criminal probes by the U.S. Justice Department and FBI. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission may bring its own civil enforcement action.) … Continue reading
The Missing Pieces in the Criminal Probe of JPMorgan’s Energy Trading
By Pam Martens: September 5, 2013 Yesterday, mainstream media was busy framing the news that JPMorgan is now under an eighth investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, this time a criminal probe into whether some of its employees obstructed the investigation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) into the company’s manipulative trading of electricity in California and the Midwest. This is a highly unusual development for a number of reasons. FERC settled its claims against JPMorgan Ventures Energy Corporation for $410 million on July 30 of this year. That amount included a civil penalty of $285 million to the U.S. Treasury and a disgorgement of $125 million to be returned to ratepayers. Typically, when a company pays a settlement of that size, its lawyers have made sure there are no loose ends – especially not a criminal probe waiting in the wings. Once the money is paid out, the bank … Continue reading
Looking Back on JPMorgan’s London Whale Saga
With criminal charges imminent, we look back on reporting of the London Whale revelations at Wall Street On Parade. Personal Investing Lessons From JPMorgan’s London Whale Debacle Despite a multitude of formulas for measuring risk, multiple layers of oversight management, 28 members of a risk management team with titles like Managing Director, Executive Director, and Vice President, it somehow didn’t occur to any of these folks that the number one criteria for a trading investment is that you need to be able to get out of it. Continue Reading… JPMorgan: Poster Child for the Most Dangerous Financial System Since 1929 Last Friday, Senator Carl Levin told the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that JPMorgan “piled on risk, hid losses, disregarded risk limits, manipulated risk models, dodged oversight, and misinformed the public.” And here’s the punch line: that’s not even the worst of what JPMorgan did. Continue Reading… The Other Thing JPMorgan Was … Continue reading
Department of Justice Has Six Ongoing Investigations of JPMorgan
By Pam Martens: August 8, 2013 If a major Wall Street firm is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that’s one thing. The SEC has no criminal powers to prosecute. And when it comes to Wall Street mega banks, there is a long tradition of fines and slaps on the wrist rather than prosecutions. But when there is an open investigation by the Department of Justice, which does possess the power to criminally prosecute, there should be concern in the marketplace, if for no other reason than the fact that there is significant public attention being paid to the DOJ’s failure to prosecute big Wall Street firms. Yesterday, JPMorgan Chase filed its quarterly 10Q with the SEC. If ever there was a document making a convincing case for breaking up the big banks and restoring the Glass-Steagall Act, this is it. JPMorgan reported it is under investigation … Continue reading
Dreyfuss’ Hedge Hogs Timely Read As FERC Fine Against JPMorgan Looms
By Pam Martens: July 19, 2013 Hedge Hogs, the Barbara Dreyfuss book that hit number 9 on the Washington Post’s Hardcover Bestseller List last week, should have a cautionary logo: “Don’t Start Reading This Book Late In the Day: It Could Be Hazardous To Your Sleep.” If you are an avid follower of Wall Street, you’ll read it in one sitting. Sales of the book may soar if, as reported yesterday, JPMorgan reaches an estimated $500 million settlement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shortly for rigging energy markets and we learn the details of just what its traders were doing to manipulate energy prices. What does this have to do with Hedge Hogs? The Dreyfuss book is the fast moving and riveting account of Amaranth Advisors LLC, the hedge fund that went from holding $9.668 billion in client assets in August 2006 to flaming out in losses exceeding $6 billion … Continue reading
About That $500 Million JPMorgan May Shell Out to FERC
By Pam Martens: July 18, 2013 The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are reporting this morning that JPMorgan Chase, the mega Wall Street bank that has shelled out over $16 billion in the last three years for legal expenses connected to investigations and lawsuits, may shortly be inking a deal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that would settle claims it manipulated energy prices. The price tag for making another regulatory mess go away, says the New York Times, may reach $500 million. The specifics of just what charges JPMorgan will be settling are not yet available, but the path to this outlay of a cool half billion is, without question, related to a regulator incensed with what it believes to be stonewalling on the part of JPMorgan’s lawyers. On November 14, 2012, FERC suspended JPMorgan Ventures Energy Corp.’s electric market-based rate authority for submitting false information … Continue reading
Jamie Dimon Has Become the JPMorgan Brand – And That’s a Problem
By Pam Martens: May 24, 2013 For five solid years, the highs and lows of JPMorgan’s Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, have been splashed across the headlines of the business press. First he was the Wall Street hero who came through the 2008 financial crisis unscathed. He sprinkled the phrase “fortress balance sheet” throughout his media interviews. He lectured Washington against over-regulating big banks (despite the fact they had just collapsed the largest economy in the world). He called international plans to require more bank capital reserves “anti-American.” He was the reigning King of Wall Street and he relished the limelight. And then, in an instant, the King’s crown was tarnished. His glib tongue uttered the immortal words “tempest in a teapot” over outsized bets by his derivatives traders in London, only to have to eat back that phrase, letter by letter, billion by billion in reported losses over the … Continue reading
Personal Investing Lessons from JPMorgan’s London Whale Debacle
By Pam Martens: March 22, 2013 One year ago this week, Ina Drew, head of the Chief Investment Office at JPMorgan which oversaw the synthetic credit derivatives portfolio that eventually blew up $6.2 billion of depositors’ money, told her traders “phones down,” signaling that she was halting all trading in those instruments. What Drew should have much earlier told her traders was: “unplug algorithms; plug in brains.” Despite a multitude of formulas for measuring risk, multiple layers of oversight management, 28 members of a risk management team with titles like Managing Director, Executive Director, and Vice President, it somehow didn’t occur to any of these folks that the number one criteria for a trading investment is that you need to be able to get out of it. London Whale was the nickname given to the JPMorgan trader, Bruno Iksil, as a result of the outsized bets he was making on … Continue reading
JPMorgan: Poster Child for the Most Dangerous Financial System Since 1929
By Pam Martens: March 20, 2013 Last Friday, Senator Carl Levin told the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that JPMorgan “piled on risk, hid losses, disregarded risk limits, manipulated risk models, dodged oversight, and misinformed the public.” And here’s the punch line: that’s not even the worst of what JPMorgan did. Each of the charges leveled by Levin occurred on a regular basis over the past decade at the largest Wall Street investment banks. What has elevated JPMorgan to the top of the Wall Street dung heap is that the long laundry list of violations cited by Levin occurred in the commercial bank, not the investment bank. JPMorgan was gambling with the insured deposits of its customers – not its own capital. Thus far, it has acknowledged $6.2 billion in trading losses using other people’s money. Both Senator Levin, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee, and Senator John McCain, ranking minority … Continue reading