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Testimony
Date: 4-27-2010 Author:Goldman Sachs
Visits: 212
Goldman Sachs: Risk Management and the Residential Mortgage Market The financial crisis has been a humbling experience for every participant in the financial system. The events of the past few years have put a particular focus on risk management, its failures a...
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Date: 4-14-2010 Author:James Vanasek
Visits: 287
James Vanasek, former CRO, Washington Mutual, Testifies before the US Senate Committee on InvestigatMr. Chairman, Senator Coburn, and other distinguished Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the mortgage and financial crisis from the perspective of a credit officer in t...
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Date: 2-14-2010 Author:Hal Scott
Visits: 180
Hal Scott, Professor, Harvard Univ. on the implications of the Volcker Rules for Financial StabilityIMHO, a particularly poignant excerpt (Barry Schachter): Clearly, the absolute size of an institution is not the predicate for systemic risk; it is rather the size of its debt, its derivatives po...
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Date: 2-14-2010 Author:Barry Zubrow
Visits: 277
Barry Zubrow CRO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Implications of the ‘Volcker Rules’ for Financial Stabilit While the history of the financial crisis has yet to be written conclusively, we know enough about the causes – poor underwriting, too much leverage, weak risk management, excessive relian...
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