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Let’s talk about the market …
No, not that market – I mean the market for our products or services. Some time back I was writing an annual report for a bank, so I called up a few analysts and institutions who followed the stock....
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Bubbles & crises – painful patterns
Last weekend was a bit scary for the financial sector, even with the market firming up in recent days. After all, takeovers and bailouts are a sign both that decision makers are concerned and that...
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Defending yourself in a YouTube world
Some good insights on reputation management in the era of Web 2.0 appeared recently in IR Magazine’s blog: In “Stay Awake Online” (August 15), IR correspondent Tim Human notes that investors are...
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Lehman Brothers failure … 694,401,926 losers
We’ll let the forensic professionals conduct the autopsy on Lehman Brothers Holdings following its bankruptcy filing. Over the next few days, we expect to read some extraordinary reporting in our...
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Lehman Brothers’ impact on you
The latest e-mail newsletter from Tim Quast of ModernIR Trading Intelligence, which tracks the flow of shares through the increasingly complex channels of the equity market and seeks to help public...
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Stewardship for shareholders – our mission
One of the saddest news stories of the financial crisis, “Loyalty Pays a Bitter Dividend,” appears today in The Wall Street Journal – a reminder that a public company is a stewardship, a relationship...
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Toxic compensation is catching on
My one contribution to the 2008 financial bailout was an idea back in September to motivate members of Congress, Treasury bosses and Fed honchos to fix the markets by paying them in mortgage-backed...
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Pushback on ‘TBTF’
Propping up banks that are “too big to fail” with taxpayers’ capital doesn’t improve the US financial system or benefit bank customers – it just concentrates more power in the hands of a few giant...
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Still too big to fail
Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a skeptic on loose monetary policy and the state of the world’s biggest banks, is convinced the United States still hasn’t heeded...
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Jamie Dimon: Cheer up, America!
While the markets are going crazy, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is out visiting bank customers and employees on a bus tour in California – and giving an interview today...
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