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Our Concern for Small Banks' Reg Burden Is Genuine

05/16/12

ABA has been cautioning policymakers for years not to make traditional banks, which had little to do with the financial crisis, pay the price for it.

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JOBS Act Jumpstart Could Be Risky

05/16/12

The recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act had the laudable goal of giving small companies easier passage to IPOs, but it did so by unwinding some Sarbanes-Oxley protections and permitting a new method of financing called crowd-funding.

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Repeal Volcker, It Wouldn't Have Saved the Whale

05/15/12

If JPMorgan's losses were from a hedging strategy, they would not have been prevented by the Volcker rule, which specifically permits hedging. The problem is hedging is virtually indistinguishable from proprietary trading.

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In Defense of Jamie Dimon

05/15/12

The JPMorgan Chase CEO's role as industry punching bag du jour has more to do with bad politics than with bad business.

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How Do We Cash In Virtual Currency?

05/15/12

Having established the viability and popularity of virtual currencies, and with the major financial players now involved, the next step is monetization.

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Behind JPMorgan's Big Loss: A Broken Risk Model

05/14/12

JPMorgan's flawed value at Risk modeling failed to catch the danger in its Chief Investment Office. But the metric's elevated readings now threaten the bank's ability to take risk elsewhere.

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Jamie Dimon Has Led JPMorgan on a Chase to the Bottom

05/14/12

That $2 billion trading loss is just last week's headline. Is Chase so big and complicated that no CEO could apply, teach and enforce decency and the smell test?

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What JPMorgan Still Needs to Explain

05/14/12

Shareholders, creditors, counterparties and regulators deserve to know more about the causes of that $2 billion trading loss.

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Will 'Egregious' Error Sway the Say-on-Pay Vote at JPMorgan?

05/13/12

Until now, there was no expectation that anyone at Tuesday's shareholder meeting would complain about the enormous booty Jamie Dimon earns. The $2 billion trading loss changes everything.

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Small Banks Are Big Banks' Pawns in Assault on Dodd-Frank

05/11/12

If community banks aren't willing to separate themselves from their larger counterparts, they risk appearing to be agents - or dupes - of the bigger banks.

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