Write-Offs: 12.17.12
$$$Knight Weighs Offers [WSJ]
$$$US banks call for easing of Basel III [FT]
$$$US banks increase retention of mortgages [FT]
$$$ Instagram's CEO maybe lied to the California Corporations Department about whether Twitter offered to buy Instagram [NYT, cf. Felix Salmon]
$$$Peter Madoff Says He Was a Victim of Brother’s Ponzi Scheme [Bloomberg]
$$$ Silvio Berlusconi may or may not be engaged to a 27-year-old [Gawker]
$$$ A leading buyside institution is looking for a senior investor relations specialist in New York [DBCC]
$$$ Argentina got its boat back [Credit Slips]
$$$Aladdin Capital to pay $1.6 mln to resolve SEC charges [Reuters]
$$$U.S. agency sues JPMorgan over mortgage securities [Reuters]
$$$Calstrs Reviewing Cerberus Investment in Light of Newtown Shooting [Deal Journal]
$$$Elie Ayache, Author of the Black Swan [Wilmott]