Thursday, November 29, 2012

Wall Street’s Reputation Remains a Dog’s Lunch




Wall Street’s reputation will remain “in the doghouse” as long as trading scandals continue to plague the industry, Morgan Stanley CEOJames Gorman said.

“Say you want to be out ahead of it and give a lot of speeches and talk about all the good we’re doing,” Gorman said today at an industry conference in New York. “And then some trader does some stupid thing like this guy at UBS did and he’s in jail and all bets are off,” Gorman said. He was referring to Kweku Adoboli, the UBS trader convicted of fraud this month in the largest unauthorized trading loss in British history.

Americans’ confidence in U.S. banks fell to a record low of 21 percent in June, with the percentage saying they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of faith in financial institutions about half that in 2007, according to a Gallup poll. Financial services and banking were the least-trusted industries in an annual survey released in January…...

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