Update: CNBC reports Lewis to step down by end of year; Cuomo/BofA Smackdown: It’s On! (again)
Update 09/30: Charlie Gasparino is reporting that Ken Lewis has been pushed out (the stmt says he stepped down but I call BS)!! This is HUGE! WOTS was he had TOTAL BACKING OF THE BOARD! Recall BofA is centred in Charlotte, NC far from the Wall St shenanigans but Lewis got sucked into the ‘eeeevil banker’ canard PLUS the added bonus of ‘hide the bonuses’ with Thain. I for one would never want Andy Cuomo on my trail if I had a blessed thing to hide!
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(Reminder FD- MiM are shareholders in both BofA and were MER shareholders as well pre merger)
Bank of America’s CEO Ken Lewis, the embattled head of the nation’s biggest bank, told the board he plans to step down by the end of the year.
Lewis wasn’t asked to step down and the decision was not the result of any regulatory action, sources told CNBC. No successor has been named yet….
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Market Mover Monday: One bank needs more capital per stress tests..will the ‘Cheese’ stand alone?
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Fri. Apr. 24 2009 | 4:29 PM ET
Discussing the bank stress tests and more, with Robert McTeer, fmr. Dallas Fed Bank president; Bill Isaac, Secura Group of LECG; and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow
The cheese stands alone…but who is the cheese? DOW futures are down sharply, 141…
I say it’s CITI, any takers? The notion that our entire banking system is infected with TARP b/c Paulson and Geithner wanted to shield CITI by injecting capital into everyone, and now CITI is still a problem, if it is indeed CITI, well it sucks….
…if only the REGULATOR of CITI back then had KNOWN… who was that masked man? it was Geithner in NY as head of the NY FED…..
CITI CEO Vikram Pandit, who has been cooperating like crazy, even agreeing to cramdowns with Durbin…well WOTS is his head will roll as the sacrificial lamb…yet Dick Parsons somehow got promoted out of it, this after he presided over the TimeWarner stock tanking, go figure…
One of the 19 financial institutions that received a government stress test would require additional capital, based on the initial findings, according to an industry source…Though the source did not identify the company, the government in its report Friday said results were “conveyed” to the participating firms at the end of April, so the bank in question would be aware of the Federal Reserve’s assessment….
…Banks found to have inadequate capital, will have six months to raise the money, through a variety of means in the private sector. If unsuccessful, the government has said the institutions will be eligible for a capital infusion through its Capital Access Program….
“There are two things that are terribly wrong,” former FDIC Chairman Bill Isaac told CNBC.com. “First, that was publicly announced. I can’t imagine what Treasury was thinking when it made that move. It has been causing incredible angst in the markets … The second big problem is that the Treasury is directing the stress testing, apparently with direct involvement of the White House at the highest levels. Bank regulation by law is supposed to be carried out by the independent banking agencies without any political interference.”..
Moderate in the Middle 