Unlike other regulatory actions involving the loss, which focused on porous controls and governance practices at the bank, the pact with the trading commission exposed the bank’s actual trading activity. And the case, which brings JPMorgan’s tally of fines in the trading loss case to more than $1 billion, was a first for the trading commission. Until now, the commission had never exercised its authority under Dodd-Frank to combat manipulation. “In Dodd-Frank, Congress provided a powerful new tool enabling the C.F.T.C. for the first time to prohibit reckless manipulative conduct,” David Meister, the agency’s enforcement director, said in a statement. “As this case demonstrates, the commission is now better armed than ever to protect the market from traders, like those here, who try to ‘defend’ their position by dumping a gargantuan, record-setting, volume of swaps virtually all at once, recklessly ignoring the obvious dangers to legitimate pricing forces.”
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:54:28 +0000