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Bank of America paid $1.2 billion to Merrill associates…

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

We hate to pick on Bank of America (BAC). Really we do. But we couldn’t help it after noticing something new and interesting buried deep in this amended 8K filed late yesterday. We’ll skip right to the good part: Adjustments to record approximately $1.2 billion related to contractual change in control obligations included in historical [...]

Yet another TARP beneficiary…

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

It’s almost become akin to shooting fish in a barrel: find a TARP recipient — there’s over 400 of them now according to the latest report from Treasury — and then troll through their recent SEC filings to see how at least some of that money was spent on enriching an executive (or two). It’s [...]

TARP, ARRA and limits on pay…

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Tempting as it is to focus on the giant banks, like Citi (C) and Bank of America (BAC), I couldn’t help but notice this 8K filed by The South Financial Group (TSFG) late Friday. Over the past year, the South Carolina bank’s stock has declined by 95% and the stock is currently trading at under [...]

Down memory lane with the bankers…

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Inspired by yesterday’s marathon hearing that saw 8 of the nation’s top banking titans subjected to hours of Congressional questions, I decided to do a little wandering through some filings from a few years ago, when things were decidedly rosier. It didn’t take that long for me to come across this filing from Golden West, [...]

A snow-day and Goldman’s 10-K…

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

It’s snowing here in the northern burbs, which has given me plenty of time to brew some coffee and dig into the 10K that Goldman Sachs (GS) filed yesterday. Weighing in at 691 pages — nearly double the size of last year’s K, it’s certainly a lot to digest and we have to admit getting [...]