As long-term readers of Wall Street On Parade know well, we have regularly warned that the failure of Congress to meaningfully reform Wall Street by restoring the Glass-Steagall Act poses a national security threat to our nation in times of crisis…
Banks Sink – Throwing More Cold Water on All That Talk that Megabanks Are a Great Investment…
There are apparently stock-picking analysts across Wall Street pumping out buy recommendations on stocks to the public who have never cast their eyes on those chilling derivative charts published quarterly by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…
New Questions Emerge: Is the New York Fed Working for the American People or the Wall Street Banks that Own It?…
Adding to a very long laundry list of questions about exactly whom the New York Fed serves, is the help-wanted ad that was posted four days ago. The ad is for a Financial Planning & Analysis Expert to work at the New York Fed’s headquarters in lower Manhattan. One part of the job description is this: “modelling of potential investment opportunities.”…
Barclays CEO Jes Staley Steps Down Amid Pressure Over Epstein Ties…
U.K. lender says regulators had made preliminary conclusions in investigation into relationship…
EU Fines Citigroup, JPMorgan, 3 Other Banks $1.2B for Collusion…
The European Commission fined five banks more than $1 billion Thursday, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, for participating in collusion activities involving 11 currencies and two cartels in the Spot Foreign Exchange market. The commission penalized Citigroup, JPMorgan, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland for taking part in the Forex-Three Way Banana Split cartel. Barclays, […]
Barclays, Former CEO Criminally Charged Over Qatar Fundraising…
Two familiar names are in the news this morning, after the UK’s Serious Fraud Office filed criminal charges against Barclays Plc and four former executives, including former CEO John Varley, for conspiracy to commit fraud regarding the bank’s 2008 capital raising from Qatar. The SFO said Tuesday that former Chief Executive Officer John Varley, former […]
Did Big Media Run Fake Headlines on the Deutsche Bank “Settlement”?…
In the case of the announcement late last Thursday evening that Deutsche Bank and the U.S. Justice Department had reached an agreement to settle claims against the bank for allegedly swindling investors in the sale of toxic residential mortgage backed securities, all that could be heard was the sound of one hand clapping in a […]
Bombshell Dropped in Federal Court: Proof of a Silver Market “Mafia” Among Big Banks…
Lawyers representing traders who allege they were ripped off by a group of colluding global banks filed eye-popping evidence in a Manhattan Federal Court yesterday showing that even as global banks were being criminally probed for rigging currency markets, they continued to engage in rigging the silver market, with a UBS trader referring to the […]
Deutsche Bank Pays $60 Million To Settle Gold-Manipulation Lawsuit…
2016 is shaping up as the year when countless conspiracy theories will be confirmed to be non-conspiracy fact: from central bank rigging of capital markets, to political rigging of elections, to media rigging of public sentiment, and now, commercial bank rigging of both silver and gold…
The Forgotten Victims by David Dayen…
Ever since Wall Street bankers cratered the global economy in 2009, federal prosecutors have barely been able to keep up with the unprecedented scale of corporate wrongdoing. Last year, in a series of high-profile settlements, Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland agreed to…
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