Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company. She's now the Head of New Projects for FT.com.
Learn moreThe Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations spent several months looking into the credit derivatives trades placed by JPMorgan's chief investment office. The trades ultimately lost the bank $6.2bn. The resultant report, and exhibits associated with a hearing in the US Senate on March 15th, has provided a great deal of background information previously unavailable anywhere else. We dig in...
Don’t. Just don’t. No “I don’t think we should treat this as regulatory arbitrage” in an email. No cc’ing your personal Yahoo account. And certainly don’t put “Optimizing regulatory capital” in the subject line.
All in, below is a really good example of what not to put in an email, courtesy of Patrick Hagan, the chief quantitative analyst at JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office from 2007. Read more
Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)
Learn more| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of Jun 19 2013 16:35 |
6,349 | -25.39 | -0.4% | 6,876 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of Jun 19 2013 17:15 |
1,180 | -3.23 | -0.3% | 1,258 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of Jun 18 2013 05:00 |
1,652 | +12.77 | +0.8% | 1,687 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of Jun 19 2013 18:29 |
1.34 | 0.00 | +0.1% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of Jun 19 2013 19:05 |
105.89 | -0.13 | -0.1% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of Jun 19 2013 16:56 |
1,373 | +5.90 | +0.4% | 1,795 |
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