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• Do Global Banks Spread Global Imbalances? The Case of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007–09

  
  shopyield.com — Authority: 428
  Jacques Polak Research Conference at the IMF Financial Frictions and Macroeconomic Adjustment Washington DC, November 5—6, 2009 Session 4:  Asset Prices and Crises Chair: Jan Brockmeijer (Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF) Do Global Banks Spread Global Imbalances? The Case ...
  3 days ago

• BofA taking Twitter to next level with CRM

  
  The Financial Brand — Authority: 491
  Bank of America has been working on a CRM solution to monitor and manage its Twitter-based customer service efforts. It appears the bank has teamed with Salesforce to deploy the customer-service computing company’s Service Cloud 2 product that was introduced earlier this year. You can see a rather bizarre ...
  4 days ago

• The Parable of the Trading Sardine

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority: 434
  Buddy Christ approves this message. Sudden Debt recently posted this little story, and I would be remiss to not share a lesson taught by guys named "Zebediah" and "Yorick." Enjoy: Andy convinces Billy to buy a can of sardines at...
  4 days ago

• Bank of America’s Next CEO May Be Based in New York City

  
  Bank REO Real Estate — Authority: 118
  This is good news that they are looking to have their banking operations headed from NYC where many still see it as the financial center of the world.  Charlotte is suitable for handling overall operations but with trading and other financial product units becoming a larger portion of major banks revenue streams, it ...
  6 days ago

• In Brief: Snapshots of stories you may have missed

  
  The Financial Brand — Authority: 491
  Click on the hotlinked summaries to read the full story. On Hold: ING Direct’s entertaining pre-recorded phone messages You Suck: Which U.K. bank gets the most complaints? Freeze! FBI’s 2009 Q2 robbery data for financial institutions Yucky Trend: Image of banks continues to plummet ...
  6 days ago

• When Anarchists Attack: Fell Street BofA Still Boarded Up After Halloween Mayhem

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 529
  This is the scene at Fell and Broderick, right across the street from the makeshift shrine of fallen pedestrian Melissa Dennison . It seems the Bank of America Buena Vista Branch #0269 suffered a Halloween night attack from people dressed in black who broke numerous large windows and an ATM. Apparently, the ...
  6 days ago

• BofA puts $40 million into ‘Simple’ ads

  
  The Financial Brand — Authority: 491
  Bank of America is shifting its ad focus from brand to products in its $40 million ad campaign for Q4. The campaign uses straightforward demonstrations to show how simple banking is at BofA, featuring flagship products like Keep the Change, Add It Up and Power Rewards. The overall take-away BofA hopes ...
  1 week ago

• How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash

  
  ::Broadcatching:: — Authority: 129
  McClatchy Washington BureauSun, Nov. 01, 2009Greg Gordon | McClatchy NewspapersNovember 01, 2009 01:17:44 AMWASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp ...
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• The Little-Guy Agenda

  
  The Atlantic Politics Channel — Authority: 150
  The Obama administration came into this summer with a sweeping plan for financial regulation--its proposals for how to prevent another meltdown after the mortgage crisis and the wave of bank failures that led up to President Obamas inauguration and continued to dominate discussion during his first months in office. ...
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• Bank of America Project Review released to public

  
  Kirkland Views — Authority: 139
  Redacted version of Sterbank Report now available from City of KirklandThe City of Kirkland has just released what is being called the “Bank of America Project Review” which tasked an outside attorney, Bob C. Sterbank, to review the process of a legal nightmare which engulfed the City Council in the summer of ...
  1 week ago

• Block 37 May Need New Developer

  
  The Chicago 77 — Authority: 426
  28 October 2009 – Block 37 again faces uncertainty after Bank of America filed a $128-million foreclosure suit against its developer last week. One possible solution - replace current developer Joseph Freed & Associates with a new developer willing to pump more money into the project. Block 37 is already $34 ...
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• “In cases like this, the outcome is always along the lines of 50, 60 or 70 cents on the dollar”

  
  shopyield.com — Authority: 428
  ~ We still don’t know why the Federal Reserve paid 100 cents on the dollar to the counterparties of AIG. .. the mystery is another mark against the “too big to fail” banks and their closely woven interconnection with the Federal Reserve … Bloomberg reminds us of a comparable closeout of a ...
  1 week ago

• “Money illusion”

  
  shopyield.com — Authority: 428
  Analysis and discussion with Niall Ferguson of Harvard University; Banks still too big to fall and free borrowing helps banks. (Bloomberg News video - running time 8:00) Excellent analysis…
  2 weeks ago

• Zombies Identified

  
  Tim Oren's Due Diligence — Authority: 413
  Because only zombie companies would put up with this . And like movie zombies, these - Bank of America, American International Group, Citigroup, General Motors, GMAC, Chrysler and Chrysler Financial - will soon, if not already, be shambling around groaning for "braaaiiinnnsss!!1!1!" because the few left there will ...
  2 weeks ago

• Will Galleon Case Become SEC v. Rakoff Part II?

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 742
  Just as we were starting to get used to not seeing Manhattan federal judge Jed Rakoffs picture on the LB every day, hes landed himself back in the thick of another high-profile case -- the one involving allegations of insider trading against Galleon hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam. And it could lead to another ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Highlights: 10.19.09

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Asian currencies advance for a seventh week as growth, yields draws funds. Asian stocks fell as losses at Casio, Yaskawa Electric spook expectations of recovery. Business-Jet demand likely to skid before recovering: Honeywell Intl. China’s economy grew by over 7% in the first nine months of the year: Govt ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weekend Reading

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  The best unknown activist investment of 2009 ( Greenbackd ) Words from the wise ( Financial Armageddon ) CME in talks to buy CBOE for $5 billion ( Bloomberg ) UBS warned U.S. customers by registered mail their account details may be given to U.S. tax authorities ( Reuters ) Goldman can spare you a dime ( NYT ) ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bank of America still in shambles — Bank posts $9.6 billion Q3 credit loss

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 133
  Two taxpayer bailouts, equating to $45 billion, later, Bank of America still can not get it together. America’s largest bank, BofA, posted a big third quarter loss as improvement in its Merrill Lynch investment banking unit failed to offset consumer credit woes, sending its shares down 4.5 percent. This just ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ken Lewis forced to pay back BofA $1 million

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 133
  Ken Lewis, Bank of America’s exiting CEO, will not be taking any more pay or bonuses from BofA in 2009. What’s more, any money that he has received this year, i.e. over $1 million, Ken Lewis will be paying back to the bank. Apparently Kenneth Feinberg, US Treasury Department’s special master for compensation, ...
  3 weeks ago

• CORRECTED: BofA swings to $1 billion loss

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 965
  (Corrects spelling of McDonalds name in paragraph 4)
  3 weeks ago

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