by Tim Delaney | Dec 12, 2011
The New York Times DealBook blog just put out a fine piece on the collapse of MF Global: A Romance with Risk That Brought on a Panic by Azam Ahmed, Ben Protess, and Susanne Craig (December 11, 2012). It’s the most comprehensive summary of the events that led to...
by Tim Delaney | Nov 6, 2011
There have been movies about finance before: Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, for instance. There are films about the financial crisis as well: HBO’s Too Big to Fail. But the best movie about finance has to be Margin Call, just out in theaters...
by Tim Delaney | Oct 21, 2011
There are a number of worthwhile accounts of the firms that failed or nearly failed in the great financial market collapse of 2007-2009. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin and All the Devils Are Here by Bethany Maclean and Joseph Nocera are two strong general...
by Ron Carleton | Dec 28, 2010
Here’s our list of the top 10 topics on the minds of credit professionals in 2010: 10) Risk Management – We’ve written many times this year about risk management, both good and bad. Whether it was BP and operational risk, suppliers dealing with...
by Tim Delaney | Oct 10, 2010
Back in July, we discussed how much progress BP seemed to be making with safety (See “BP’s Safety Warning Signs,” July 11). From 2005 through 2009, the company went from the worst record among the majors to about the best in terms of injuries, deaths, and spills. But,...
