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.
Which is a little different from what you said, which is that they 'get the information on those positions on a regular and recurring basis.'
Yes, absolutely. And it is important for us as the regulator to know what the actual market is and be informed on a timely basis.
Jamie Dimon testified to the Senate that the SCP was to protect against a financial crisis
But its general direction, its general theme is to lead to tougher risk controls, is it not?
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.
And when he testified that the SCP was to protect against Scenarios 2 and 4, you go all the way over to number 10 to try to find some scenario in which it might be helpful.
Is it common inside JPMorgan to change your pricing practices when the losses start piling up in order to minimize the losses?
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 have gone into the concerns which we have had about the whale trades all day long.
the Synthetic Credit Portfolio was not reducing the bank's risks but was increasing them?
the bank stopped sending the Investment Bank's daily profit and loss (P&L) data to the OCC.
We recommend that regulators finally issue the long-delayed final rule implementing Merkley-levin provisions of Dodd-Frank, which are known as the Volcker Rule.
So you were very comfortable with the position you were in under those three central scenarios, showing you losing money under a New Financial Crisis--right?--of $250 million.
Regulators did not 'get the information' on those positions on a regular basis, did they?





