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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

Well, the math may work out for you, but the question is whether or not that is what you said, and we will find out more about that.

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Mar 14, 2013

In fact, it was increasing in size.

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Mar 14, 2013

All right. So that this is wrong, this email is wrong. Is that correct?

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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

Should the OCC have been informed about that?

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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, 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

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.

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Mar 14, 2013

It is his decision, not Mr. Braunstein's decision, to do that.

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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

Well, we have already covered some of the matters involving hidden financial risks, mismarking, breaches of risk limits, and public disclosure problems.

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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

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

Shouldn't investors have known during that call that the current status of the SCP was not great, it was losing a lot of money, huge positions that it had were hard to exit, it had been violating all five risk limits?

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Mar 14, 2013

We thank our witnesses here, and we have seen today a very disturbing picture which raises questions not just about JPMorgan but about derivatives in general.

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Mar 14, 2013

These regulatory capital requirements are one of the most important tools that we have to ensure the safety and soundness of our financial system.

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Mar 14, 2013

Were you aware of the fact that it had not been reviewed every year?

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Mar 14, 2013

All right. So when Ms. Drew said you were, or she thought you were, she was wrong. You were not.

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Mar 14, 2013

Is it not true that when a derivatives portfolio gets to be that big that there is a special danger?

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Mar 14, 2013

Was it a coincidence that the way in which those marks were made changed to reduce the losses on the books at the time those losses were piling up?

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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

OK. So that in 2012, the Synthetic Credit Portfolio was being actively traded, right?

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Mar 14, 2013

It seems to our review that, absolutely, the----

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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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