Is anyone surprised? Really? From HuffPo: Hands-On Jamie Dimon’s email response was direct and to
the point. “I approve,” he wrote to an oversight body within his enormous bank,
JPMorgan Chase, thereby giving his blessing to an increase in the amount of
risk the institution could shoulder. He also approved a change in the way a key
trading unit was assessing threats of trouble in its then-burgeoning portfolio.
That email -- released late Thursday as part of a 300-page
Senate report probing how and why Dimon’s bank managed to lose $6.2 billion on
derivatives trading -- now appears to tie the chief executive directly to the
disastrous decision-making at issue.
The trading occurred in the London offices of a bank unit
known as the chief investment office, which was officially tasked with hedging
against losses in JPMorgan's broader positions. The Senate report portrays the
CIO as a locus of reckless speculation, asserting that executives with
oversight ordered the manipulation of a key risk model to make its activities
appear conservative….
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