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JP Morgan surprise press conference to report new $2 bln losses | Banking Insight

The JP Morgan Treasury / Chief Investment Office is purportedly carrying losses of up to $4.5 bln and the same would be disclosed in a press conference in detail in … Continue reading

May 10, 2012 · 4 Comments

Bank Results Season: Wells Fargo Q1 2012 repeats Q4 performance – The pretender looks f-ugly in comparison? | Banking Insight

The bank moved up its earnings report a week to enable like to like comparison with peers like JP Morgan as it reported a 75 cents Earnings per share for … Continue reading

April 13, 2012

So what of Wikileaks targeting Bank of America? | Banking Insight

Julian Assange’s Wikileaks newsy leaks last month of taking down a big bank were confirmed to be against Bank of America. One’s quite certain that a ton of these documents … Continue reading

February 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

Wells Fargo found the niche JP Morgan voided! | Banking insight

Though in true banking fashion, the new look empathy from the bank already looks going over the cliff. The bank has done an average 33% better than at least JP … Continue reading

January 27, 2012 · 5 Comments

Bank Results Season: Goldman Sachs' ends tryst with 2008? – $4.51 for 2011 ain't a bad score | Insider Insight

The firm that has been variously called out as a giant vampire squid, comes close to reporting its lowest annual revenues since 2008’s $22 bln with the expected $28.88 bln … Continue reading

January 18, 2012 · 5 Comments

Thinking aloud – Will Banking survive? | Vickers Report recommends a multi ring circus |

With Swiss regulation anointing traders as teenaged monkeys after a young Adoboli again showed the banking world how they earn their profits, the banks will have to get to the … Continue reading

September 16, 2011

Moving Target: Wells Fargo CFO Howard Atkins leaves

During the Bank results season last month the $20 bln revenues of Wells Fargo, much as they were evenly split between Net interest Income of $10 bln from commercial banking … Continue reading

February 9, 2011 · 5 Comments

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