Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Morgan Stanley Facebook IPO Fine Will Take The Company 87 Minutes To Pay Off [#WristSlap]




From HuffPo: With the kinds of fines bank regulators are handing out these days, it would almost be criminal for a bank not to break the law.

Morgan Stanley on Monday agreed to pay $5 million to settle charges by the top securities regulator in Massachusetts, William Galvin, the latest bitter fruit to fall from the withered tree that is the disastrous Facebook IPO. According to Galvin, the Morgan Stanley investment banker riding herd on the IPO gave some non-public information about Facebook to Morgan Stanley's research analysts (and also the analysts of other IPO underwriters).

Morgan Stanley neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing in paying its $5 million fine. So why would it agree to pay $5 million, you might ask? Isn't that a lot of money….

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/morgan-stanley-facebook-ipo-fine_n_2318152.html?utm_hp_ref=business

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