Category: Fraud
09/15/11
12:13:04 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Corporate Governance, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud
Keywords: Investment Banking, Moral Hazard more »
09/03/11
02:01:49 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 198 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud
Once more there is commotion in the banking industry. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (F.H.F.A.), which overseas the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since 2008, is going to file a suit against some major banks, alleging fraud in the mortgag… more »
03/23/11
06:59:25 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 352 words
Categories: Investment, Fraud, Regulation
Good article of L. Zingales about the impact of corrupt money managers on e.g. the regulatory environment. He explains that few corrupt traders can have a highly negative impact on a whole industry, where most players might act correctly:Project Synd… more »
03/18/11
The Motley Fool about Vanguard's founder John Bogle's new book:
The Motley Fool: When Rich People Do Stupid Things, March 8, 2011
Keywords: John Bogle, Smart Decisions more »
12/22/10
Airtime: Tues. Dec. 21 2010 | 10 01 00 ET Keywords: Wikileaks, Financial Terrorist more »
12/19/10
08:44:59 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 731 words
Categories: Analysts, Investment, Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud, Restructuring, Regulation
When we (a group of entrepreneurs) started this website, www.marketobservation.com, in early 2007, hardly anybody was aware of the awakening of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. As entrepreneurs we know that it normally takes enorm… more »
07/12/10
12:25:59 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 82 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud, Regulation
The New Republic: Tremble, Banks, Tremble; The key to financial recovery: restoring the rule of law on Wall Street, by James K. Galbraith, July 9, 2010The financial crisis in America isn't over. It's ongoing, it remains unresolved, and it stands in t… more »
04/19/10
05:42:13 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 196 words
Categories: Investment, Academic, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud
Source: ProPublica (click for larger image)"From the middle of 2006 to the summer of 2007, Magnetar helped to create and invested in at least 28 subprime mezzanine CDOs, or collaterized debt obligations, deals it often bet against while also pushing… more »
05:36:56 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 155 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud
Times Online: Goldman Sachs case opens lawsuit floodgates on Wall Street, April 18, 2010Lawyers in the United States were predicting a wave of legal action last night in the wake of the $1 billion fraud charge brought against Goldman Sachs by the US… more »
04/18/10
06:52:57 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 8 words
Categories: Investment, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud
Fascinating stuff by Felix Salmon
Goldman’s Abacus lies more »
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales, NBER Working Paper No. 12882, Feb. 20017
Paper abstract:
"What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this… more »
07:24:52 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 88 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud
Bloomberg: Tourre E-Mail in SEC Complaint Describes CDO ‘Monstrosities’Here is an Email sent on Jan. 23, 2007, by Fabrice Tourre, Vice President of Goldman Sachs, to a friend: "More and more leverage in the system, The whole building is about to… more »
Using privileged information to manipulate markets: insiders, gurus and credibility, by Roland Bernabou, Guy Laroque, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, No. 3, Aug. 1992 more »
03/28/10
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03/15/10
07:16:04 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 144 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud, Bankruptcy
Michael Lewis, ex invesment banker and bestselling author says in an interview that the people at Wall Street are not all criminals but that there has been a tremdendous mass delusion. Here are Lewis' original words:"I think the story is much more in… more »
06:39:36 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 279 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud
Find here a collection of ascorted links to the Lehman, potential fraud problem:Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chapter 11 Proceedings Examiner¡¯s Report; Jenner & Block is providing links to the Report of the Examiner in the Chapter 11 proceedings… more »
03/14/10
03/13/10
01:22:59 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 23 words
Categories: Academic, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud, Bankruptcy
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy more »
11/23/09
NYT: Executives Kept Wealth as Firms Failed, Louise Story, November 22, 2009
Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers paid their executives largely in stock, and that stock lost most or all of its value when those companies collapsed.
Many people on Wall… more »
06/07/09
11:37:03 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 87 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Academic, Fraud
Reading "Animal Spirits" by Akerlof and Shiller I came across the chapter about corruption and bad faith. It is obvious that lower principles can trigger a "social osmosis" leading to the worse:
Consequently, it seems crucial that organizations ta… more »
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