World News Insights
1-3 Minute Gist
Search, personalize, or simply browse. Follow the world around you from gist and context to insights.
Who we are | Our Credo | Ways of using Lyrarc | FAQ | Send Feedback | First Letter From the Editor
Sign up. It's free and easy to use
Create an account
to personalize your feed of articles and topics.
All Topics Article
'London Whale' Rattles Debt Market
Keywords:
Mr Iksil, a trader in Chase's CIO London office made such massive bullish bets on CDX-IG-9 index of 121 companies by selling credit default swaps, to the point where it cost less for protection on the index than for the individual components of the index. This worked in Jan-Feb 2012 with hedge funds on the other side having paper losses. In subsequent months hedge funds realized that Iksil would have to unwind some of these bets to avoid large losses. As a trader at Bank of America put it in a memo, at that point "Fast money smelled blood." The result is that hedge funds accelerated their bets against Mr Iksil's bullish positions, leading to the large $2 billion losses at CIO unit of Chase- losses on depositors money from aggressive bets in a volatile market. Mr Iksil is a French born trader, who has worked for Chase since March 2007. He has earned $100 million each year for Chase. He travels to London from his Paris home each week, and works from home Fridays. Two junior traders work with Iksil, primarily placing bets for complex trades in credit markets.
JP Morgan Chase and the London Whale
04/10/2012
Trader Iksil at the CIO offices in London and the huge positions he had taken which were likely to lead to losses. Chase's denial that this was anything unusual.
Grouped Articles
Regulatory Headaches Worsen for J.P. Morgan
Wall Street Journal 08/19/2013
'London Whale' Penalties Put at $500 Million to $600 Million
Wall Street Journal 08/28/2013
Embattled J.P. Morgan Bulks Up Oversight
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
New York Times 10/15/2013
J.P. Morgan Reaches $13 Billion Tentative Deal with Justice Department
Wall Street Journal 10/20/2013
Record Pact Is on the Table, But J.P. Morgan Faces Fight
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2013
JP Morgan Chase bank CEO Jamie Dimon's views on banking, executive pay and regulation in the U.S.
01/15/2010
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/04/2013
J.P. Morgan Battle Doesn't End With Dimon
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
For Dimon, Now Is Time for Renewal
Wall Street Journal 05/27/2013
Embattled J.P. Morgan Bulks Up Oversight
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Dimon Vows to Fix JP Morgan's Compliance Problems
New York Times 09/17/2013
SEC Wants Boss-Employee Pay Gap on Display
Wall Street Journal 09/19/2013
JP Morgan Chase debt portfolio and asset allocation decisions similiar to proprietary trading
05/13/2012
Large shift in asset allocation since 2006, with significantly higher corporate bond holdings, creates more risk.
Grouped Articles
Embattled J.P. Morgan Bulks Up Oversight
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
At JPM: James and the Giant Reach
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2012
'London Whale' Rattles Debt Market
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2012
JPMorgan Chase Executive to Resign in Trading Debacle
New York Times 05/13/2012
Dimon's Fixer Is Trusted Veteran
Wall Street Journal 05/15/2012
Hedge or Bet? Parsing the J.P. Morgan Trade
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2012
J.P. Morgan Chase $2 billion trading losses in May 2012, the Volcker Rule and Dodd-Frank legislation
04/10/2012
Grouped Articles
Regulatory Headaches Worsen for J.P. Morgan
Wall Street Journal 08/19/2013
Obama Presses Regulators to Finish Financial Rules
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2013
The Volcker Rule on Bank Risks Approaches Its Final Edits
New York Times 12/03/2013
Regulators Set to Approve Toughened 'Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 12/04/2013
A Hedge or a Bet? Trade Highlights Ambiguity in Volcker Rule
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2012
J.P. Morgan Chase management
06/14/2011
Grouped Articles
J.P. Morgan Faces Another Big Exit
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2013
Wall Street Journal 05/04/2013
J.P. Morgan's Dimon Aims to Stay Put
Wall Street Journal 05/20/2014
Wall Street Journal 06/20/2015
Changes in Chaseâs Top Ranks
New York Times 06/14/2011
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2011
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase bank
01/15/2010
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/04/2013
A Call for New Blood on the JPMorgan Board
New York Times 05/05/2013
J.P. Morgan Battle Doesn't End With Dimon
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2013
For Dimon, Now Is Time for Renewal
Wall Street Journal 05/27/2013
Embattled J.P. Morgan Bulks Up Oversight
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Paul Volcker, the traders at JP Morgan's London office, and "losses that would be socialized with the potential gains all private"
05/12/2012
Volcker described the situation to the U.S. Senate Banking committee the day before the story came out about the massive trades made by JP Morgan's trader, known as the "London whale." Losses would be socialized under "too big to fail" for the largest U.S. banks.
Linked Articles
Paul Volcker vs. JPMorgan’s London Whale - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/12/2012
'London Whale' Rattles Debt Market
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2012
We took a different way to help millions around the world build educated informed mindsets that affects and shapes their lives. For a future that is open, global and digital, with everyone having access to high quality information. We believe in the renewal of America, renewal of Europe, the renewal of India, the rest of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The renewal of our supply chains, health, education, infrastructure, as we rebuild our countries after the pandemic. Literacy and knowledge we believe cannot thrive and grow in a world of web bots, web crawlers, or AI. This requires human curiosity, human learning, and human imagination. We take as inspiration the saying- “One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to have a mind that is crystal clear, only then can truth shine in it.” Every contribution whether big or small is precious- in this crisis and ahead.
Support Lyrarc from as small as $1
Terms and Conditions | Copyright Policy | Privacy Policy | Contact Us
