Managing the Risk of People Making Bad Decisions
So much for shiny, new Codes of Conduct.
Tidying up before the end of the financial year, JPMorgan Chase and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), agreed a fine of $307 million on the company and unusually an admission of wrongdoing [1].
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In January, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) had agreed to pay almost $80 million to the SEC and other regulatory agencies for a series of federal securities law violations involving “fraudulent misconduct in its ratings of certain commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)” [1]. S&P was also banned for one year from issuing ratings in the commercial bond market.
People Risk Management 