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Diallo Hall

Diallo Hall, based in New York, is a senior editor at the EIU, responsible for covering a range of industries with a special focus on financial services. Prior to joining the EIU, Diallo was director of marketing and communications at UBS Wealth Management Americas, where he oversaw the development of advisor- and client-facing marketing material. Diallo also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he was intimately involved with the market risk examinations of some of the largest financial institutions under the Fed’s supervision. During the course of his career, Diallo was also vice-president at Fitch Risk and an editor at Standard & Poor’s. He holds a bachelors degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a master of international economics and business from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Recent posts by Diallo Hall

Finding trading losses is harder than it would seem
July 17th 2012

When the news of JP Morgan’s multi-billion trading lost first leaked to the press, there was no shortage of unanswered questions. One of the most prominent centred on how regulators failed to catch these losses before they happened. However, from the regulatory perspective, catching trading blunders may not be as easy as it seems.

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When an organisation points to a rogue trader, who is really to blame?
June 12th 2012

Question: What do you call a rogue trader that hasn’t been caught?

Answer: Managing director

In January 2008, Société Générale lost billions due to an alleged rogue trader named Jérôme Kerviel. During my time working at the Federal Reserve, I was part of a team sent to SocGen to investigate. (Very interesting times in retrospect.)

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All posts by Diallo Hall

Finding trading losses is harder than it would seem
July 17th 2012
When an organisation points to a rogue trader, who is really to blame?
June 12th 2012