This company traces its ancestry to a corporation founded by Aaron Burr in 1799 that failed in its goal of supplying clean drinking water to New York.
This company traces its ancestry to a corporation founded by Aaron Burr in 1799 that failed in its goal of supplying clean drinking water to New York. This company was the largest creditor of failed commodities broker MF Global, which sued it for the return of several hundred million dollars in collateral. Ina Drew resigned from this corporation after an event which its CEO first described as a "tempest in a teapot" before admitting that it would cost this company over six billion dollars; during that event, its English employee Bruno Iksil gained the nickname the (*) "London Whale." Its CEO, Jamie Dimon, purchased Washington Mutual after facilitating a deal in which this bank paid $10 a share for an investment bank that collapsed in March 2008. For 10 points, name this bank that bought Bear Stearns, the namesake descendant of a bank founded by the creator of U.S. Steel.
This company traces its ancestry to a corporation founded by Aaron Burr in 1799 that failed in its goal of supplying clean drinking water to New York.
JPMorgan Chase [prompt on JP Morgan]