Paulson
| 4:21PM 11/09/2010
Goldman Sachs has been fined $650,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for failing to properly disclose to regulators that two of its executives were going to be investigated by the Securities & Exchange Commission, FINRA announced Tuesday.
| 5:15PM 9/08/2010
Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs has been fined £20m ($31 million) by British financial authorities for failing to disclose it was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission -- an inquest which ultimately led to July's blockbuster $550 million stateside fine.
| 4:15PM 2/02/2010
Henry Paulson's just-published memoir "On the Brink" recalls the financial crisis as it unfolded in the fall of 2008. Far from a gossipy tell-all, it devotes the bulk of its pages to the cautionary tale of how the world's financial system nearly collapsed -- and what he tried to do about it.
| 12:00PM 11/16/2009
The Paulson who's been most in the news over the last few years has been former Treasury Secretary Hank. But the Paulson who has made the most money during that time is a fellow you've probably never heard of -- another Harvard Business School graduate in the hedge fund industry -- John. Through...
| 10:15AM 10/23/2009
Of all the outrages to the American taxpayer in the last year, there is not one that can top the bailout of American International Group (AIG). After former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson decided to let Lehman Brothers collapse 13 months ago in history's biggest bankruptcy ($639 billion), AIG --...
| 8:00AM 10/14/2009
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| 2:00PM 10/05/2009
While most news reports on Special Inspector General's Neil Barofsky focus on how the Treasury Department and the Fed lied about TARP being used to bail out "healthy" banks, we're spinning our wheels on trying to figure out who lied, and what they said. How will knowing who lied change what needs...
| 10:20AM 9/30/2009
After rumors were publicized Tuesday in The New York Post that CIT's (CIT) creditors, including John Paulson & Co, were considering a merger of CIT into IndyMac, its stock shot up on the hope that a rescue plan was in place. Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal killed any remaining hopes...
| 10:30AM 4/14/2009
Fannie Mae CEO Herb Allison is likely to take over from Neel Kashkari, the former Goldman Sachs Group (GS) banker who brought his shiny pate to Congress to get kicked in another part of his anatomy for his handling of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). If approved, Allison's formal title...
| 10:00AM 3/25/2009
It might have been a down year for most of us, with even hedge fund investors licking their wounds from big losses, but top the 25 hedge fund managers still walked away with billions. Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine, which comes out today, reports that the top 25 hedge fund managers earned...