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Did 20/20 Invade Madoff's Privacy?

Feb 25, 2009 @ 01:09 PM By Ivy Schmerken,

Friday night, ABC’s 20/20 aired an investigative report on Bernard Madoff that showed the former financier under house arrest in his luxurious apartment working on his Apple Macintosh computer and drinking a beer. At one point, Madoff gets up to fluff his pillows.

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The Curious Case of J. Ezra Merkin

Feb 16, 2009 @ 11:12 PM By Ivy Schmerken,

Court papers filed by New York University against New York money manager J. Ezra Merkin reveal that Merkin, who invested $2 billion with Bernard Madoff, was taking investment advice from a convicted felon.

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Deutsche Bank Reins In Top Trader After $1.8 Billion Loss

Feb 10, 2009 @ 11:27 AM By Ivy Schmerken,

The definition of Master of the Universe is changing at large investment banks like Deutsche Bank where chess players were given wide latitude to take risky bets with the firm’s capital.

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FSA Considers Classifying Broker Dark Pools as MTFs

Feb 5, 2009 @ 12:26 PM By Ivy Schmerken,

I recently heard that the UK’s Financial Services Authority has been eyeing dark liquidity pools operated by investment banks to figure out whether their internalization engines should be reauthorized or registered as MTFs — systems to buy and sell financial instruments — under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive or MiFID.

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