J.P. Morgan - Mahony Partners

Jun

2016

Fiddling While Wall Street Burns

Financial Services, Taking & Managing Risk

For a business that makes its living from intermediating disruption, Wall Street is remarkably inept at dealing with its own ebbing fortunes. Just look at the recent announcements from two big banks. Read More

Jul

2012

Where is the Ed Breen of Banking?

Crisis, Financial Services, Taking & Managing Risk

Remember Ed Breen? No? He took over a well known company after it was rocked by scandal, pilloried by Congressmen and editorial writers and later had its senior executives sent to jail. He adopted a radical strategy and engineered a brilliant turnaround. It’s a lesson for banks today. (more…) Read More

Jun

2012

Three Lessons from Jamie Dimon and Bob Greifeld

Crisis, Financial Services

Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan and Bob Greifeld of Nasdaq OMX share several things in common. Both presided over colossal blunders at their firms – a multi-billion-dollar trading loss at J.P. Morgan for Dimon, and a systems breakdown on the closely watched Facebook IPO for Greifeld. Both Dimon and Greifeld have thus far offered only general descriptions of what went wrong. Both are facing tough scrutiny from investors and regulators, with the possibility of legal action, and both executives are still unable to tally the full cost of the mishap to their institution. And yet for all these similarities, Jamie Dimon is today the stronger executive. Read More