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JPMorgan Chase named a new chief financial officer Tuesday, part of an executive shuffle it said would help groom the company's future leaders.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. named a new chief financial officer Tuesday, part of an executive shuffle it said would help groom the company's future leaders.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a review of a failed investment by five southeastern Wisconsin school districts in collateralized debt obligations that were intended to establish trusts to pay the districts’ non-pension retiree health care benefits.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday it charged ICP Asset Management LLC and its founder and president, Thomas Priore, with defrauding investors four multi-billion-dollar collateralized debt obligations

Jefferies & Co. said Monday it hired Andrew M. Barish as a managing director and senior equity research analyst covering restaurant companies. Barish has over 20 years of industry experience, most recently at Cowen & Co., where he was a managing director for cosumer investment banking.

House conferees reached an accord with Sen. Richard Durbin on a provision of the regulatory reform bill that would allow the Fed to regulate interchange fees on debit cards.

Maliz Beams, who was ranked one of the top 25 non-bank women in finance in 2008 by U.S. Banker, will be replaced by Edward Van Dolsen, who was named chief operating officer.

Individual Retirement Account assets have overtaken assets held in 401(k) plans and 403(b) plans for the first time, according to a Cogent Research report.

Suddenly, Florida is the ripening fruit for many bank buyers, which raises the question, How did that happen?

American Banker | Monday, June 21, 2010

Putnam Investments plans to continue to aggressively expand its array of products even as market volatility has forced some competitors to retrench.

Now that custodians like Schwab Advisor Services will have to report the same information directly to the Internal Revenue Service, Schwab is taking steps to ensure that they and their advisor clients move in lock step with each other to avoid running afoul of the IRS’s new rules.

The Senate is considering a set of exemptions to the Volcker Rule that would allow the asset management divisions of banks to continue business as usual when it comes to investing client money in hedge funds and private equity.

The hiring mill keeps grinding at the wirehouses, as MSSB adds two teams of advisors with combined client assets of more than $1 billion.

Citi Private Bank's private banking arm announced it hired Thomas Petrone as a managing director and head of capital markets for North America. Petrone, who will be based in New York City, will work on capital markets solutions for ultra high net worth clients.

Wealthy individuals now hold more of their assets in IRAs than employer-based plans.

Nomura Draws In Barclays, Credit Suisse Dealmakers

The breakaway broker phenomenon continues at Columbia State Bank, Tacoma, where the brokerage unit has hired three wirehouse veterans over the past six months, and the $5 billion-asset bank may not be done.

Advisers are missing opportunities to expand existing relationships and attract wealthy clients, according to a survey by ByAllAccounts, an account aggregator in Woburn, Mass.