Bankruptcy Blogs

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week, including thoughts on regulatory complexity, Jamie Dimon's defense of the megabank model, and how vulnerable banks really are to tech startups.

General Electric Co.’s decision to

Banking has less in common with industries like music and entertainment than it does with long-entrenched pharmaceutical, grocery store and airline businesses Â-- all of which can absorb the threat of new entrants by adapting to them.

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A Farewell to Banking: For General Electric, the banking business has lost its allure. The company plans to sell or spin off the bulk of its finance unit, GE Capital, over the next two years, returning to a focus on its industrial manufacturing business. Although the $500 billion-asset GE Capital brought in roughly half its parent company's earnings, it also came with a slew of regulations and risks that apparently weren't worth...

JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon tried to defend his bank's size and scope by suggesting that community banks are just as vulnerable in a crisis. But he succeeded only in proving that Wall Street firms will make the same mistakes all over again unless the government takes steps to disincentivize their risky behavior.