Entries tagged "SIFMA"

Geithner on 'too big to fail,' stress tests

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner shared his thoughts on giving regulators the tools to manage a wind-down of a large, systemically important financial institution.

Treasury Secretary Geithner on the economy

The Treasury secretary talks about a number of subjects including the economy, regulatory reform and government intervention in the private sector during the worst of the financial crisis.

Jamie Dimon on the financial crisis

J.P. Morgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon shared his thoughts on the economy, compensation, markets and bailouts at SIFMA's annual meeting.

Conference Board's Spector on compensation

The Conference Board's Jonathan Spector addressed compensation practices at SIFMA.

Wall Street looks to rehab its reputation

With popular anger at Wall Street riding high, SIFMA is planning a push to rehabilitate the industry's reputation.

Creating a market for the TARP program

At the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Summit on the Troubled Asset Relief Program Monday afternoon, L. William Seidman, former chairman of the FDIC and the Resolution Trust Corp., talked about creating a market for assets that no one wants to buy. "Creating a market is painful," Seidman said, referring to the RTC program he ran that was created to deal with the S&L crisis. ...

William Seidman on culprits of the financial crisis

L. William Seidman, former chairman of the FDIC and the Resolution Trust Corp., was the lunch speaker at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Summit on the Troubled Asset Relief Program Monday afternoon. As chair of the FDIC during the last financial crisis, Seidman started off by reassuring the audience that the crisis would pass, but he quickly focused on the seriousness of the situation. ...

J.P. Morgan's Rivas: 'TARP is going to help deals get done'

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s managing director Fernando Rivas said at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Summit on the Troubled Asset Relief Program Monday that the TARP program will help increase the amount of completed deals."TARP won't change strategy," Rivas commented. "The important thing to note is that a lot of the bigger deals happened before TARP." ...

Sullivan & Cromwell's Michael Wiseman on the Fed's tools

Michael Wiseman, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLC , spoke Monday at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Summit on the Troubled Asset Relief Program about different tools the Treasury and Federal Reserve will have to bring into play to help save a financial system where financial institutions are often "too interconnected to fail."...

Carlyle Group's Randal Quarles on the pain of deleveraging

Speaking at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Summit on the Troubled Asset Relief Program Monday, Randal Quarles, a managing director at the Carlyle Group, provided some insights into just how leveraged America's financial system is....

RBC's Gerard Cassidy: TARP will slow M&A

Speaking at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Summit on the Troubled Asset Relief Program Monday morning, Gerard Cassidy, managing director of Bank Equity Research at RBC Capital Markets, talked about the ways TARP will affect M&A in the banking industry. ...

Survey shows banks' reservations over TARP

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association or SIFMA, the financial industry lobbying group, announced that a recent survey found a large percentage of financial firms are reluctant to participate in the Treasury Department's rescue plan because they say it lacks clarity. ...

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