Wednesday, 9 August 2017

The Volcker Rule & the London Whale

The Institutional Risk Analyst:

"It is not down in any map; true places never are."

"Moby Dick"
Herman Melville

News reports that prosecutors have dropped their case against Bruno Iksil, the former JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) trader many know as the “London Whale,” comes as no surprise to readers of The IRA.  Iksil, who resurfaced earlier this year, has been living in relative seclusion in France for the past few years. 

In previous comments posted on Zero Hedge, we dispensed with the notion that the investment activities of Iksil and the office of the JPM Chief Investment Officer were either illegal or concealed from the bank’s senior management.  The fact is that Iksil and his colleagues at JPM were doing their jobs, namely generating investment gains for the bank. 

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