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Carl Levin

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Carl Levin was a prominent American politician who served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1979 until 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin was known for his leadership on the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he played a key role in shaping U.S. military policy and defense spending. Throughout his tenure, he was an advocate for various issues, including environmental protection and consumer rights.

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Mar 14, 2013

I think your answer was inaccurate.

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Mar 14, 2013

All right. Now, you also wrote in the email that the bank said, quote, that if you--referring to the OCC-- 'have been watching the position reports and the P&Ls,' do you know what position reports and P&Ls you could have been watching?

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Mar 14, 2013

shifting the pricing practices to minimize losses is not acceptable.

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Mar 14, 2013

In fact, it was increasing in size.

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Mar 14, 2013

There was no relationship between the fact that the losses were piling up and that there was a way in which the marks were made to reduce the impact of those losses on the books.

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Mar 14, 2013

Jamie Dimon testified to the Senate that the SCP was to protect against a financial crisis

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Mar 14, 2013

the bank needs to provide true, accurate, independent marks every day.

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Mar 14, 2013

You had no reason to believe it until April 2012?

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Mar 14, 2013

Did the London traders have to get approval of the CIO risk managers like you to put on positions?

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Mar 14, 2013

Would you call that a high-risk approach?

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Mar 14, 2013

Now, rather than identifying risks to be offset, are you also going to identify the assets to be offset?

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Mar 14, 2013

We had a $157 billion high-risk derivatives portfolio here that OCC hardly knew existed, and that strikes me as being a hidden financial risk.

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Mar 14, 2013

We identified serious risk management weaknesses throughout the entire Firm, and they became particularly evident in the CIO office.

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Mar 14, 2013

Now, when the bank reviewed the new model for approval, at that time it said that implementation issues, certain issues, had to be worked out before the model was activated.

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Mar 14, 2013

Did you know that these limits were supposed to be reviewed every year?

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Mar 14, 2013

But its general direction, its general theme is to lead to tougher risk controls, is it not?

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Mar 14, 2013

We have gone into the concerns which we have had about the whale trades all day long.

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Mar 14, 2013

Now, it seems to me that the numbers tell the story, just as the OCC examiner told us.

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Mar 14, 2013

Well, in general, let me ask you, Mr. Curry, what is your reaction to that activity, reducing the RWA not by selling risky assets but by designing models in order to produce lower numbers?

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Mar 14, 2013

You think the average person listening to this would not think you were referring to the trades that were at issue that blew up?

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Mar 14, 2013

We will have 12-minute rounds, if that is OK.

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Mar 14, 2013

Should the OCC have been informed about that?

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Mar 14, 2013

it was Mr. Dimon who was responsible for directing the data cutoff.

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Mar 14, 2013

Did the OCC know any about that, what I have just described?

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