Authors:

  • Mark Roe

Excerpt

JPMorgan Inside the Whale. Mark Roe, October 7, 2013, Opinion. "It has been a bad few weeks for JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the multinational financial-services firm that by some measures is America’s biggest bank. Two of its traders were indicted, and the bank agreed to a billion-dollar fine for failing to report the extent of its “London Whale” losses fast enough and accurately enough. Now it faces even bigger fines – perhaps exceeding $10 billion – for mortgage activities, mostly by two of the financial firms, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, that it bought up during the financial crisis. The conventional wisdom is that the United States government..." Link verified March 28, 2014