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  Greg MacSweeney
  Sub-Prime Loans and CDOs Have Helped Create the Perfect Storm
  Sub-prime loans, predatory lending, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and a legitimate real-estate market collapse have shaken the foundation of the U.S. economy.
• Who Said Technology Isn’t Important?
  Check scams, logic bombs, data theft, online outages, compensation for botched trades and computer glitches -- and that was only the first six of seven stories gracing a popular financial technology Web site earlier this month.
• Tony Soprano and My Social Security Number
  We live in a world of trust. We want to believe that everyone is good, and Ozzie and Harriet live next door. Unfortunately this world does not exist -- especially online.
• Innovation Dilemma
  When you think of the securities and investments industry, of what do you think?
• Redefining Risk
  It wasn't long ago that risk management implied VaR (value at risk) and ERM (enterprise risk management).

Blog

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  Gregory MacSweeney
  Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” If you ranked the people who are the most disliked by Wall Street executives, Michael Lewi...
• Wall Street Firms Focus On Vendor Risk (video)
• AIG and Backdoor Bailouts?
• Volcker Speaks Out On Financial Innovation (video)
• FDIC Looking to Cash In on Risky Behavior
• Is Wall Street’s Day of Reckoning Still to Come?

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