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...Paulson stayed away from the bonus issue for two reasons. The first is that fighting with the banks over which investment banker should be paid what amount would have taken too long. The second was that he did not want to appear to be the de facto CEO of all the companies which got TARP money. He decided that in this crisis the banking executives would have to use their own discretion in the use of the money. He chose to leave this decision to their boards and not the Treasury. And as it became clear that the government would...
...FINRA for the last 12 years, and before that was an enforcement prosecutor at the SEC. Wallace is now partner at the law firm Foley & Lardner, chief counsel of its financial industry regulatory authority practice. "Within a few months of coming on board at FINRA, Mary brought charges against Banker's Trust Securities," Wallace says. "She jumped right in, she beefed up enforcement, and wasn't afraid at all to take on powerful interests. She was an enforcement officer once, and enforcement officers are motivated by bringing big cases, they want to show they can go toe to toe with...
...already be in the library under 'History.' Dick shows you what he wants you to see, and the part of him you don't often see is his assertive, unwavering killer instinct ... There's nothing else on Dick's mind but winning." - John O. Utendahl, a Wall Street investment banker and a close friend, BusinessWeek...
...September - have come under criticism on Wall Street and Capitol Hill for being hesitant and reactive. Associates say Geithner doesn't necessarily disagree with the charge that the government's response "has had an ad hoc, seat-of-the-pants quality to it," as a senior investment banker in the middle of things puts it. That's one reason Geithner and the rest of the Obama economic team have indicated that they plan to move more aggressively, on an even broader scale, than the government has to date. Geithner has declined publicly to put a number on just how large...
...banks have received has been pumped back into the economy in the form of loans. And many question the judgment calls Washington made as the crisis escalated last fall. "No one has yet adequately explained why they bailed out Bear Stearns but not Lehman Brothers," says the senior investment banker critical of the government's approach. "That's not all on Geithner, but some...