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The Report cites investment banks as a major player in the lead up to the crisis, and uses a case study of two leading participants in the U.S. mortgage market, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. The case study found that from 2004 to 2008, banks focused their efforts heavily on RMBS and CDO securities, complex and high risk financial products ...
The unit was run by Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew, who later stepped down. A series of derivative transactions involving credit default swaps (CDS) were entered, reportedly as part of the bank's "hedging" strategy. [1] Trader Bruno Iksil, nicknamed the London Whale, accumulated outsized CDS positions in the market. An estimated trading loss ...
Investment banking has also been criticized for its opacity. [51] However, the lack of transparency inherent to the investment banking industry is largely due to the necessity to abide by the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) signed with the client. The accidental leak of confidential client data can cause a bank to incur significant monetary losses.
The market for financial services evolved dramatically in the post-Civil War era. One of the most significant changes was the emergence of "active investment banking" in which investment bankers influenced the management of client companies through sitting on the finance committees and even directly on the board of directors of those companies.
A Full Service Bank, London 1991 "Case study: Bank of Credit and Commerce International", Erisk, June 2001, (via Internet Archive), retrieved October 1, 2007, An incomplete copy of the Sandstorm report(pdf), made available by the Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs, retrieved November 9, 2005
Wells Fargo's sales culture and cross-selling strategy, and their impact on customers, were documented by the Wall Street Journal as early as 2011. [5] In 2013, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed intense pressure on bank managers and individual bankers to produce sales against extremely aggressive and even mathematically impossible [7] quotas. [8]
UBS Group AG building in St. Gallen.UBS maintains strict banking secrecy practices which have been used to facilitate tax evasion. The Swiss investment bank and financial services company, UBS Group AG, has been at the center of numerous tax evasion and avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S., French, German, Israeli, and Belgian tax authorities as a consequence of their strict banking ...
Salomon Brothers, Inc., was an American multinational bulge bracket investment bank headquartered in New York City.It was one of the five largest investment banking enterprises in the United States [2] and a very profitable firm on Wall Street during the 1980s and 1990s.