I should have added one thing to my reactions to Jamie Dimon’s testimony. First of all, a set of anti-foreclosure activists disrupted the hearing at the beginning, demanding Dimon to “stop foreclosures now!” As that wasn’t the point of the hearing, this went mostly unaddressed on the panel. But then unassuming Sen. Herb Kohl decided [...]

I don’t think it was too much of a surprise that today’s hearing with Jamie Dimon was something less than stringent. Very few Senators bothered to show up with anything more than a list of questions and a pallid expression. The very structure of the hearing, with one round of five minutes of questioning, wasn’t [...]

The Senate Banking Committee hearing with Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to begin at this hour. A preview of today’s proceedings, including Jamie Dimon’s written testimony, is available here. You can watch the hearing on C-Span. I’ll add my comments below. …well, the hearing started with a bang. Foreclosure activists screamed at Jamie [...]

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon faces the Senate Banking Committee in a two-hour hearing scheduled for 10am ET today. He’ll be the only witness. Keep in mind that Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase has given millions to top-ranking members of the Banking Committee, so anything more than headline-grabbing and grandstanding without a real challenge to Dimon in [...]

Jamie Dimon testifies before the Senate Banking Committee tomorrow, and this Bloomberg report should be a nice template for the Senators questioning him. It alleges that he was personally responsible for keeping regulators at bay from the chief investment office, the one responsible for all the Fail Whale losses, which could reach past $5 billion [...]

Housing Wire reports on bank attorneys preparing for “showdowns” with the RMBS working group on fraud cases. Well, they have to justify their billings to their bosses, don’t they? The reality of whether banks should sweat the investigation is far less clear. In fact, we have more information from a couple sources today that suggest [...]

Federal regulators maintained at a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday that investigations against JPMorgan Chase were ongoing, but that several factors, especially the funding of their agencies, would hamper their efforts. This was the first confirmation by the heads of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler and Mary [...]

Elizabeth Warren has been talking about the conflict of interest inherent in having Jamie Dimon sit on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Timothy Geithner even recognizes a problem, though he limits it to the appearance of impropriety rather than the impropriety itself. Now there’s actual legislation to go [...]

The London Independent comes out with the largest estimate I’ve seen of losses on JPMorgan’s Fail Whale trades: $7 billion. The crisis at JP Morgan escalated yesterday as it emerged its trading losses in London could rise to as much as $7bn (£4.5bn) and the US bank cancelled a share buyback. Fears were growing that [...]

The Fail Whale trades showed that massive, as-yet unregulated risk still exists in our financial system, with the potential to bring down the economy once again and trigger massive taxpayer bailouts. Since the Administration already passed a law that was supposed to deal with that, they’re scrambling to restore what little of value existed in [...]

One thing the media establishment has been sure to point out when talking about the Fail Whale trades at JPMorgan Chase is that the losses, now $3 billion and counting, do not threaten the viability of the firm in any way. The bank is well-capitalized and well-reserved, they passed the recent stress tests, and a [...]