Banks

Which is when you will be back at your desks, goddamnit, epidemiology notwithstanding.

No, it wasn’t a kind Christmas gift, just typical bank back-office incompetence.

Violate your DPA, pay a $35 million fine, etc. etc.

Congrats, holdouts! You get to work from home for the foreseeable future.

D-Sol and Dimon are getting in the holiday spirit.

He really let the kids run wild on their devices without even a glance.

Seems we weren’t going to have this COVID stuff licked by Labor Day.

Blockchain comes to the foreign-exchange foodchain.

If any bank could do it, the Germans are it.

BofA is accused of getting a little too Wells Fargo-y with the notorious Alex Murdaugh.

Surely the Justice Department can’t be serious about holding companies to account for all of the hundreds of illegal things they’ve done?

Westpac even (allegedly) conjured a scheme that eluded Wells’ most enterprising fraudsters.

With paid bereavement leave and six-week sabbaticals, you can just call it Goldman Snowflake.

Ray Dalio, not so much.

Jamie Dimon thinks Tesla is over the line.

But which was putting it a huge legal, regulatory and financial risk for nothing.

Ties to the convicted pedophile is apparently the only thing powerful white men can’t talk themselves out of.

If you do it in the next month, you get $200. If you don’t do it within two months, you get canned.

Like the Hope Diamond, a curse hangs round the glitter of Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

He doesn’t need the extra $50 million to stick around, but the board’s giving it to him anyway.

The CFTC misspoke initially.

It’s not supposed to be this way for the Elect of the Elect.

And there sure were lots of bribes flowing in Mozambique.

At least one company did not enjoy having its shares dumped, it says in lawsuit form.

Simply showing up shouldn’t be sufficient for a $5 million payday.

Having gritted their teeth through Gary Gensler and Rohit Chopra, the pitchforks are out for Saule Omarova.

A knock at the door from the fuzz is not how anyone wants to ring in a new job.

And also not take away their free ice cream.

Tales from the pestilent road(show).

Whether you’re a simple homeowner or a sophisticated investment banking client, it’s just the way Wells does business.

Perhaps this wasn't the best thing to draw a line in the sand about....

Both of which are completely unnecessary for purpose, but apparently necessary to maintaining Wall Street’s culture or something.

Morgan Stanley doth protest a lot about working from home.

Wall Street’s also-rans confirm that the second quarter was a good one indeed for banks.