Friday, May 25, 2012

JPMorgan Gave Risk Oversight to Museum Head





We’re shocked, Casablanca-shocked.  According to the good folks at Bloomberg the three directors who oversee risk at JPMorgan Chase  include a museum head who sat on American International Group Inc.’s governance committee in 2008, the grandson of a billionaire and the chief executive officer of a company that makes flight controls and work boots.

What the risk committee of the biggest U.S. lender lacks, and what the five next largest competitors have, are directors who worked at a bank or as financial risk managers. The only member with any Wall Street experience, James Crown, hasn’t been employed in the industry for more than 25 years.

“It seems hard to believe that this is good enough,” said Anat Admati, a professor of finance at Stanford University who studies corporate governance. “It’s a massive task to watch the risk of JPMorgan.”

Find out more at http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-24/jpmorgan-gave-risk-oversight-to-museum-head-who-sat-on-aig-board

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