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.
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?
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.
Jamie Dimon testified to the Senate that the SCP was to protect against a financial crisis
Did the London traders have to get approval of the CIO risk managers like you to put on positions?
Now, rather than identifying risks to be offset, are you also going to identify the assets to be offset?
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.
We identified serious risk management weaknesses throughout the entire Firm, and they became particularly evident in the CIO office.
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.
But its general direction, its general theme is to lead to tougher risk controls, is it not?
We have gone into the concerns which we have had about the whale trades all day long.
Now, it seems to me that the numbers tell the story, just as the OCC examiner told us.
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?
You think the average person listening to this would not think you were referring to the trades that were at issue that blew up?





