Friday, 8 November 2013

Dimon’s Vacation Comes Up in New ‘London Whale’ Documents



The day before The Wall Street Journal published a story describing the outsized bets taken by a J.P. Morgan ChaseJPM +4.47% & Co. trader nicknamed “the London whale,” one of J.P. Morgan CEO James Dimon’s top lieutenants told him via e-mail that she wanted to “go over all the technicals” with him but “understood you were on vacation.”

The April 5, 2012 exchange between Mr. Dimon and Ina Drew, the executive in charge of the bank’s Chief Investment Office at the time, is a new detail about J.P. Morgan’s handling of the episode that emerged Friday as the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released more than 2,500 pages of documents it collected as part of an investigation into the trades. Read more.

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