James Dimon
Summary
James L. "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) is the current CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co as well as a Class A director of the Board of Directors of the New York Federal Reserve, a three year term which started January 2007. Dimon was named to Time Magazine′s 2006, 2008 and 2009 lists of the world's 100 most influential people.James "Jamie" Dimon was born in New York City, to Theodore and Themis Dimon, and attended Browning School. His grandfather, a Greek immigrant from Asia Minor, was a broker and passed on his knowledge of the business to his son and partner, Theodore.
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Audit Notes: Wall Street fraud and coverup
The New York Times has a tough report on newly uncovered emails that show Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase knowingly misled customers about how bad some of its CDOs were. According to the court documents, an analysis for JPMorgan in September 2006 found that "nearly half of the sample pool" -- or 214 loans -- were "defective," meaning they did.
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Audit Notes: Whinin' Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus
I got a chuckle from Mark Gongloff's Huffington Post piece on Jamie Dimon taking his anti-administration whining to the friendly confines of CNBC: Dimon on Friday afternoon did his whining on CNBC, which has become a sort of Dr. Phil for aggrieved CEOs in the wake of the national catastrophe that is Obama's reelection, according to CNBC.
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Audit Notes: NYT and Bain, Dimon's Comp Committee, 401(k)s
It's great that The New York Times is going aggressively after court documents in a big private-equity bid-rigging lawsuit, filing a motion to get documents unsealed. But I wonder how relevant it is to mention its former CEO Mitt Romney so prominently in a story about alleged anticompetitive behavior that occurred at least two years after he left the.
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JPMorgan's Dimon shuffles managers just below him - London South East
JPMorgan's Dimon shuffles managers just below himLondon South EastShare Risers Blinkx (BLNX)+10.
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Stories I'd like to see
In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters. com. 1. Pinning the $ on the politicians: Much of the press covering the testimony of Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing.
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Audit Notes: Very profitable staff cuts; Dimon's crisis bet; Obama and trade
Bloomberg's Edmund Lee gets a great quote from the editor of Time Incorporated's Sports Group, Terry McDonell, on why Sports Illustrated is reducing its staff of reporters and editors via buyouts: “Everything is about money eventually and being more efficient,” he said. Although Sports Illustrated, which has 210 editorial employees, is “very profitable,” the reductions will allow the magazine.
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Dana Milbank: The Wall Street Senate
JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon has been a scourge of the Obama administration in recent months, but when he appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Republicans found the head of the country’s largest bank to be alarmingly off-message.
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Video: How does politics change in the age of the real-time social web?
Politics used to be a very controlled and almost theatrical process, with politicians and other political actors appearing in carefully scripted events — and the reporting and analysis of those events was also restricted to certain specific media channels: a couple of TV networks, one or two major newspapers, and so on.
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Senators put federal regulators, not JPMorgan, on the hot seat
JPMorgan Chase has spent upward of $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years. On Tuesday, the bank received a healthy dividend on that investment.
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It’s time to break up the big banks
Consider $2 billion lost on a bad bet, plus billions more as investors dumped the stock, a providential warning. When Jamie Dimon, the imperious head of JPMorgan Chase, revealed that the bank had lost so muchon a derivatives trade gone bad, it was clear warning that, four years after blowing up the economy, the big banks are still playing with bombs.
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