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JPMorgan Chase's stock has sunk more than 16 percent since it disclosed a more than $2 billion derivatives trading loss earlier this month, and regulators continue to look for answers as to what happened and when.

* Reforms to spur moves into derivatives, wealth management

A hearing in the Senate Banking Committee on reforming derivatives is the first test of a new resolve for reform.

Move follows bank’s recently reported loss of $2-billion on derivatives trading

According to the Wall Street Journal ("Inside JP Morgan's Blunder" 05.18.12) JP Morgan's losses on what has been reported as big directional bets on credit...

A CLASS-ACTION lawsuit has been filed against JP Morgan Chase after the bank lost more than $2 billion in derivatives trading.

Energy supplier SSE saw annual pre-tax profits dive 87pc, from £2.1bn to £268.5m, after being hit by derivative losses and costs relating to halting doorstep sales after its conviction for mis-selling.

Shares of JP Morgan (JPM) are down 22 cents, or 0.6%, at $36.03 amidst a busy day for the firm. This morning kicked off with word that two funds, Saratoga Advantage Trust, and individual investor James Baker, late yesterday filed suit against the bank over its $2 billion projected loss on derivatives trading, disclosed by [...]

Maggie noted last night that the furor over JP Morgan's multibillion-dollar trading loss has direct political implications, and now word comes from the Wall Street Journal that several executives will exit the firm due to their involvement in the blunder: Three high-ranking officers at the center of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s giant trading blunder are expected to leave the firm this week, ...

Media reports say three senior executives to stand down this week over the firm's $2 billion loss on derivatives trades.

JPMorgan Chase & Co is expected this week to accept the resignation of Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew after the bank lost $2 billion or more with a failed hedging strategy using derivatives, sources close to the matter said Sunday.

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The US banking group said Thursday that it had lost the money on trades in complex credit derivatives, mostly carried out by London trader Bruno Iksil.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of banks are tumbling on news that JPMorgan Chase lost $2 billion in the past six weeks in trading on derivatives....

(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley said on Monday that credit rating agency downgrades of its long-term debt would have required the company to provide additional collateral and make termination payments under derivatives contracts ranging from $868 million to $7.2 billion as of March 31.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway posted first-quarter earnings Friday that doubled versus last year, buoyed by gains in its insurance businesses and derivatives holdings.

Giant banks are making a major push to blunt the impact of a proposed rule that could further constrain their trading profits.

ISLAMABAD - In line with its efforts to strengthen the capital market in Pakistan by further developing the derivatives market segment and providing investors with more diversified range of investment/hedging alternatives, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved the Regulations Governing Index Option Contracts of the Karachi Stock Exchange. These regulations ha...

NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer has diversified the company into derivatives trading and leveraged its technological underpinnings into a rapidly growing new business. But its shares get no respect from the Street.

Two trades on NSE’s derivatives segment on Friday — done at prices way off the prevailing market levels at the time — rattled market players and pulled down the benchmark indices nifty and the sensex by about 1.5% each in intra-day trades.

Analysts have claimed that billions are at stake and the derivatives market could be destroyed because of the new securities tax touted by government.

Royal Bank of Canada, one of the country's largest banks, is accused of "multi-hundred million dollar" fraud over derivatives trading by a US regulator.

The chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) vowed on Thursday to develop the crude oil futures market and speed up creation of new financial derivatives.

South African-born and educated, Greg Smith, 33, has attained his 15 minutes of fame. After 12 years as a derivatives specialist at one of the world's most prominent investment houses, Goldman Sachs, Smith quit as head of the firm's US equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and, instead of a long-practis ed custom of keeping "shtum", he published his resignation lette...

Interest rate swaps are less often in the news than credit default swaps, but they are far more important in terms of revenue, composing fully 82% of the derivatives trade. In February, JP Morgan Chase revealed that it had cleared $1.4 billion in revenue on trading interest rate swaps in 2011, making them one of the bank's biggest sources of profit

THE INTERNATIONAL Swaps and Derivatives Association ruled that Eircom is technically in default over its debts after the association said there had been a failure-to-pay credit event.

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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association ruled that Eircom is technically in default over its debts, after the association said there had been a failure-to-pay credit event.

In middle school, my teacher assigned a book by Mario Puzo called "The Godfather." Yes, it was pretty epic. From that work of art, mass audiences were introduced to Don Corleone and eventually its derivatives Goodfellas, Bugsy, Capone, Casino, Heat, The Departed, and scores of other pieces that romanticized the notion of organized crime across the globe, a world of big bosses, willing soldiers,...

Republic Report has released figures documenting the fact that the average member of Congress gets a 1,452% salary hike when she or he leaves office and becomes a corporate lobbyist. They point out that politicians are allowed to negotiate these raises while they are in office, and don't have to disclose this fact when they're [...]

The financial world is in an uproar about the New York Times opinion piece by Greg Smith, a former vice president in Goldman Sachs' equity derivatives business.

Greg Smith resigns as executive director of Goldman's European equity derivatives business after devastating attackA Goldman Sachs director in London has resigned after publishing a devastating open letter accusing senior staff of being "morally bankrupt" and bent on extracting maximum fees from clients by offloading unsuitable investment products.Greg Smith, who has left his post as executive ...

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BRUSSELS (AP) -- The agency that oversees financial derivatives says a massive debt relief deal for Greece constitutes a so-called credit event, meaning it will trigger payouts on bond insurance....

The body that governs derivatives markets has been asked to rule on whether credit-default swaps tied to Greek sovereign bonds should be paid out after the passage of laws approving collective-action clauses for Greek debt.

Investment bank Goldman Sachs was exposed as helping Greece mask its true debt by author Nick Dunbar in his book 'The Devil's Derivatives'.

Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- biologists are showing how freeloading, mutant derivatives of these plasmids benefit while the virulent, disease-causing plasmids do the heavy-lifting of initiating infection in plant hosts. The...

Derivate-Anleger müssen sich mit Wetten auf den Ausgang der US-Wahl noch gedulden: Die North American Derivatives Exchange wollte eigentlich Anfang Januar mit ihren Wahl-Futures starten. Nun verzögert sich der Start.

The National Stock Exchange will sweeten the incentives provided under its liquidity enhancement scheme (LES) for S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) derivatives from January 2 next year.

A group of 83 Internet inventors and prominent engineers sent an open letter today to the members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills that are under consideration in the House and Senate respectively. * * * We, the undersigned, have played various parts in building a network called the Internet. We wrote and debugged the ...

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange on Wednesday began offering derivatives meant to protect shippers from the risks posed by the fluctuating cost of shipping coal on two domestic routes.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse and NYSE could spin off parts of their derivatives arms to create a third-party competitor as a way to allay anti-trust concerns about their $9 billion merger,...

Francesco Braga, who teaches derivatives at the University of Guelph in Ontario, was shocked to receive an email from the ministry in Rome suggesting he was getting the top job.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras spilled almost double the amount of oil and derivatives in 2010 as was released off the Brazilian coast by Chevron earlier this month, a Brazilian newspaper said on Sunday.

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Huge numbers can be scary, especially when it comes to derivatives. So investors should take a seat before reading third-quarter securities filings from some of the biggest U.S. banks.