Write-Offs: 03.13.12
$$$Fed Is 'Playing a Game With Us:' Pimco's Gross [CNBC]
$$$Bundesbank steps up pressure on Draghi [FT]
$$$Broker departures accelerate at Merrill Lynch [Reuters]
$$$The head of credit trading at Credit Suisse has been fined £210,000 for disclosing confidential information about a forthcoming €2.5bn bond issue after inviting a UK fund manager to “play charades” and guess the identity of the issuer. Nicholas Kyprios encouraged a fund manager who had been invited by Credit Suisse to a roadshow in November 2009 for an unnamed company to guess the issuer, using phrases like “you’re getting warmer”, the Financial Services Authority said. [FT]
$$$ How would you like to be a Fixed Income Business Management Analyst for BlackRock in New York? [DBCC]
$$$Goldman Hires a New P.R. Chief
$$$Euro Zone Split over Financial Transaction Tax [Der Spiegel]
$$$ Fred Wilpon's lawyers have planned a whole range of distractions for their Madoff trial [WSJ, related]
$$$Robert Lacoursiere, the Paulson & Co. partner who oversaw the $23 billion hedge fund’s team of banking analysts, quit last week after four years to start his own fund, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. [Bloomberg]
$$$Manhattan madam's 'sidekick' turns herself in, released on $100K bail [NYP]