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...Showrunner Brian Koppelman has said that Billions is ostensibly about the role of billionaires in society....
...“It’s primarily a bet on our ability to win market share,” said Brian Friedman, president of Jefferies....
...Chief executive Brian Moynihan told Bloomberg in Davos that fewer people had left the bank than it expected last year, which was affecting its recruitment policy....
...Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong seems to think so. Meanwhile, Expensify took the unprecedented step of urging its 10m users to vote for Joe Biden....
...A third trader, Corey Flaum, who worked with Gregg Smith at Bear Stearns before it was acquired by JPMorgan, also pleaded guilty in July, Mr Benczkowski said....
...RBS, HBOS and Northern Rock proved as vulnerable as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Citi....
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief executive Brian Moynihan took such ritual humiliation to a new, excruciating level earlier this week....
...His career has included a stint as an analyst at Bear Stearns and time as a manager in Argan Capital’s private equity department....
...Brian Friedman, chairman of Jefferies’ executive committee, wants more of it....
...Brian Domitrovic, an academic who co-wrote the book JFK and the Reagan Revolution with Mr Kudlow, says he has long clung to two aphorisms....
...He was a prominent M&A banker who served as the last chief executive of Bear Stearns, succeeding Jimmy Cayne, a cigar-chomping trader of the old school....
...“This is showing the direction where Goldman wants to go,” said Brian Kleinhanzl, analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in New York....
...Wall Street then had five freewheeling investment banks — Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns — that took big risks and depended not on customer deposits but short-term...
...Brian Duperreault, AIG’s newly appointed chief executive, welcomed the move....
...That would make it closer to a sprawling Citigroup or a JPMorgan Chase than Bear Stearns or Lehman, its pre-crisis peers....
...“There is time to groom the heir apparent,” says Brian Kleinhanzl, analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in New York....
...The Ambac lawsuit centred on mortgage-backed securities sold by an arm of Bear Stearns, which JPMorgan acquired in 2008. Ambac alleged that the Bear Stearns unit misrepresented the securities....
...He created Flagship Entertainment with Warner Brothers to co-produce films and recently took a stake in Imagine Entertainment, a production company led by Ron Howard and Brian Glazer that made the film In...
...Banks including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and HBOS collapsed or were bailed out by taxpayers months after being signed off with a clean bill of health by their auditors....
...Mike Corbat, Citigroup chief, and Brian Moynihan, head of Bank of America, have also not sold, at least while they have been chief executives....
...Imagine you’re JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon, or BofA boss Brian Moynihan. Why would you ever help the government again?...
...Other members of the forum who will be present include Brian Moynihan of Bank of America and Anshu Jain of Deutsche Bank....
...This, indeed, happened in 2008: think of Bear Stearns and Lehmans, the smallest of the five biggest US broker-dealers....
...At 57, Mr Dimon has scaled the heights of Wall Street, emerging intact from the financial crisis with the “fortress balance sheet” he likes to boast of, allowing him to buy Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual...
...Some say it is risky for people to invest too much of their savings in their employer, as staff at Enron, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Northern Rock found out....
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