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...But the logic behind merging Citi’s various corporate businesses into one unit dates back further, to former CEO Sandy Weill....
...Joshua Franklin Exactly. Stephen Gandel Right....
...By retaining company stock for the best part of two decades, Dimon has followed a tradition set by his former mentor at Citigroup, Sandy Weill, who instituted a “blood oath” among senior executives whereby...
...Dimon’s refusal to sell harks back to the era when his early mentor, Sandy Weill, dominated Wall Street and instigated a “blood oath” that required his management team to hold their shares until they left...
...In 1998, Citicorp’s John Reed, in promoting its merger with Sandy Weill’s Travelers Group, said it was Citi’s ability to sell a supermarket of financial products “on a local basis” that would make the deal...
...STEPHEN GANDEL: The thing you have to realise is that the merger that Sandy Weill and John Reed come up with, it was illegal....
...In 2000, Sandy Warner, at the time JPMorgan’s CEO, encouraged Staley to meet Epstein, according to the USVI’s filings....
...One such firm is US asset manager Franklin Templeton, which manages $1.4tn worth of assets....
...Franklin thinks neutrals are here to stay beyond this season. “Be prepared to hear the word ‘greige’ a lot.”...
...We just don’t know if it’s a minor one or Superstorm Sandy . . . And you better brace yourself.”...
...We just don’t know if it’s a minor one or Superstorm Sandy . . . and you better brace yourself.”...
...Also turning 50 are Sandy Denny’s best-known solo album, Sandy, and Joni Mitchell’s For the Roses, the Canadian’s follow-up to Blue....
...Jonathan Franklin is the author of ‘A Wild Idea: The True Story of Douglas Tompkins’ (HarperOne)...
...The disposal will mark an unravelling of the global expansion pursued by former chief executive Sandy Weill in the early 2000s, whose vision for a one-stop “financial supermarket” resulted in a disjointed...
...Unlike Dimon, a financial services veteran who worked at American Express and helped to create Citigroup at the side of Sandy Weill, Moynihan, a Rhode Island lawyer, is a less obvious Wall Street mainstay...
...For Dimon, who has led JPMorgan since 2005, the dealmaking marked a return to his roots on Wall Street, where he served as chief lieutenant to Sandy Weill during a series of acquisitions that led to the...
...You drive for about 20 minutes down a rocky track and arrive at a modest beach, which is sandy in parts but has pebbles that stab at your toes in the water....
...Go deeper: US banking editor Joshua Franklin talks to the FT’s News Briefing podcast presenter Marc Filippino about the reshuffle at the top of JPMorgan Chase and what it means for Jamie Dimon....
...One way to prevent a further slide, now being discussed, would be to close financial markets temporarily, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with US banks in 1933....
...David Zahn, head of European fixed income at Franklin Templeton, writes: “There are a lot of likely sticking points in the discussions, with fishing rights being potentially tricky to resolve....
...Edward Bennett’s Francis Crick is the latter, as in his way is James Watson (Will Attenborough sporting a sandy Eraserhead quiff); Franklin is very definitely in the former camp, and Wilkins (Stephen Campbell...
...Last year Franklin Templeton took a majority stake in K2, while Legg Mason added Fauchier Partners to its existing Permal subsidiary....
...Many of Mr Obama’s liberal supporters yearn for a different sort of president: somebody more like Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
...Against the odds, Mr Obama ground his way to a second term – only the second Democrat to do so since Franklin Roosevelt. And he will begin it with many more cards than the Republicans....
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