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Banks

All It Took For Credit Suisse To Lose $5.5 Billion Was For People To Ignore Huge Risks Piling Up That Weren’t Making The Bank Any Money

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Hedge Funds

Landlord Not Going To Let A Little Hedge Fund Meltdown Cost It $160,000

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Hedge Funds

Ex-Hedge Fund Manager And Ex-Mrs. Griffin Now Only One Of Those Two Former Things

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Banks

Actually, You Can Keep Your Money And Master Class, Mary

By Mike Cauldwell (https://www.casascius.com/photos.aspx) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Cryptocurrencies

Stablecoins May Not Be Stable, But They Might Be Criminal

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Banks

Junior JPMorgan Chasers Urged To Grind Themselves To Dust To Pay For Jamie Dimon’s Latest Bonus And Also Find Themselves

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News

You’re Nobody If You’re Not Settling Some Allegation Of Wrongdoing Before Going Public

By Mike Cauldwell (https://www.casascius.com/photos.aspx) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
News

Former Alleged Father-Son Fraudster Allegedly Became A Mama’s Boy

By Federal Bureau of Prisons (http://www.bop.gov/locations/index.jsp) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Hedge Funds

‘Relationship Of Trust’ May Be Required For Insider Trading Under Canon Law, Is Not Under U.S. Law

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Hedge Funds

RenTech Nuclear Arms Race Hits Snag

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Hedge Funds

Inspiration For ‘Billions’ Dominatrix Wins In Court Of Public Opinion

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Private Equity

Leon Black Will Have You Know That He Conducts His Extramarital Affairs With The Utmost Propriety

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Hedge Funds

SPARC Extinguished

Wharton: Strangely silent on the whole matter. By WestCoastivieS (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Thing Not Worth Doing Virtually Won’t Be Done Virtually

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News

Robinhood Employees Ready, Willing, Eager, Allowed To Dump Their Shares Onto The Next Sucker At Earliest Opportunity

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News

Turns Out You Can’t Trust Insider Traders To Not Insider Trade, Even If You Ask Nicely

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News

Space SPAC Sketchy, SEC Says

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Banks

You’ve Heard From The Best, Now Hear From The Rest

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News

Man With $150 Billion Whines To Court About Having To Do Job That Made Him $150 Billion

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Hedge Funds

Dan Loeb Makes Threats And Demands Meetings, He Does Not Get Threatened Or Have Meetings Demanded Of Him!

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Banks

Compensation Watch ’21: Goldman Sachs First Years

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Market News

Elon Musk Will Have Plenty To Tweet About This Week

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News

TikTok Founder Knows A Veiled ‘Don’t Even Think About An IPO’ When He Hears One

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News

Former Long Island Iced Tea Allegedly Doing Some Long Island Insider Trading

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Banks

You Know, When Credit Suisse Really Thinks About It, Maybe It Should Have Someone Reviewing Counterparty Risk

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News

Maybe It’s Best Not To Have Corporate Armies Of Hackers Roaming The Internet

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Banks

Wells Fargo Tries Taking Away Accounts Customers Want Rather Than Saddling Them With Ones They Don’t

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News

Robinhood May Lose 81% Of Its Revenue, Still Going Public Anyway

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Private Equity

Why Pick A Side When You Can Win No Matter Which Team Does?

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News

Noted Political Savant Anthony Scaramucci Accuses Communist Country Of Hostility To Capitalism

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Banks

Deputizing Banks As Sheriffs Too Cute By Half, Apparently

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News

Robinhood Deletes One Line From Voluminous ‘Legal Issues’ Section Of IPO Prospectus

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Hedge Funds

Steve Cohen Thinks Bitcoin Is Dumb, Hiring Head Of Crypto Anyway

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Banks

Jamie Dimon Too Busy Buying Fintechs To Check In On Fintech He Already Owns

By Mike Cauldwell (https://www.casascius.com/photos.aspx) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
News

Only 2.5% Of Crypto Fund Whose Founders Are Hiding In Fear For Their Lives Is Missing, Nothing To See Here

By World Economic Forum (Flickr: The Global Financial Context: James Dimon) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Banks

Do Fintechs Dream Of Digital Dividends?

By Mike Cauldwell (https://www.casascius.com/photos.aspx) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
News

Largest Crypto Exchange Banned From Britain, Hottest Digital Token Tanks, Bitcoin Soars, Rinse, Repeat

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Get Revenge On The Whistleblower Who Stopped You With This One Vindictive Trick

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Banks

If You Are Go ing To (Allegedly) Illegally Work In Concert With Rivals To Avoid A Massive Hit On A Collapsing Family Office, At Least Make Sure You Avoid The Massive Hit

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Banks

Deutsche Bank Thinks There Might Be Something To Criticisms Of Its Compliance Program

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News

Got A Startup Starting With The Letter ‘B’?

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News

Rubberneckers Looking Non-Existent Truck Pileup That Was Last Major Electric Vehicle SPAC Deal Not Slowing Down

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Hedge Funds

Conflicts Of Interest Continue To Pay Off For Disgraced Hedg e Fund Manager

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Hedge Funds

Hedge Fund Not Sure Hedge Funds Worth Hedge Fund Fees

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News

Short Seller To Refund Company He Slammed And, More Painfully, Apologize

Quit hiding behind the bench. By Phil Roeder (Flickr: Supreme Court of the United States) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Banks

Goldman’s Laziness Deprives Supreme Court Of Opportunity To Further Throttle Class Actions

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Banks

Prosecutors Successfully Spoof Spoofer To Prison

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News

Lordstown Executives Showing Great Confidence In They’re Not-At-All-About-To-Drive-Into-A-Ditch Company

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Banks

Bonus Watch ’21: One 35-Year-Old Deutsche Banker