The Ledger
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James: DLJ timed the market peak, selling for $14B cash
“But we sold it for fourteen billion of cash, and two or three years later Morgan Stanley sold for eight.”
Rampell: Morgan Stanley's integration with E-Trade is comically bad
“They bought E-Trade, but the Morgan Stanley site doesn't interoperate with the E-Trade site. It's just, it's so comically bad.”
Dhillon: Data science roles have gone mainstream beyond finance
“This is now widespread outside of financial services. You know, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley always had quant jocks. Now everybody has quant jocks.”
Xie: Mitsubishi UFJ wrote a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008
“So in 2008, Morgan Stanley needed an injection of capital to help prevent them from collapsing. So Mitsubishi U of J agreed to send this money, and they sent nine billion dollars, but it was a banking holiday in the US and Japan, and so they weren't actually a…”
Levine: Fidelity and Morgan Stanley defined the legacy data center blueprint
“So, 10 years ago, everyone would look at Fidelity and Morgan Stanley, and those were the prototypes for the data center. And it was, guess what? It was EMC storage, an Oracle database, a Sun Microsystems server, and a Cisco switch. And the entire world copied …”
Mitsubishi UFJ hand-delivered a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008
“Mitsubishi UFJ actually agreed to send them nine billion dollars, but since the money was needed urgently and banks were closed in the US and Japan, they actually had to write a nine billion dollar physical check and hand it in person to Morgan Stanley executi…”