When you scratch just below the surface at JPMorgan's asset management arm what does one find? Billionaire Jamie Dimon's actual words about the corporate culture in London coming back to haunt him: "flawed, complex, poorly reviewed, poorly executed and poorly monitored"...
So let's raise the stakes ... . where is it all going to end? All competent and ethical investment managers leaving London and Edinburgh and moving to Amsterdam and Paris where the laws are properly applied and Investors can trust what they file? [NB This is posted before Marine Le Pen's judgment is handed down on Monday morning or Sarkozy's latest Gadaffi indictment even brought before the Court] Did anyone really think that my discovery of a simple late filing by the UK Government's great white hope - Quantexa Ltd (which, even after the CEO of HSBC Bank has now been removed from everything, are still lying and filing false accounts and/or confirmation statements) - would have turned over such a morass of outright crime and wrongdoing by so many "professionals" in The City of London? That is what the old-style Articled Clerk contract and training at Price Waterhouse made you do - always check and reconcile the statutory books against Directors minutes and Co...