Greg Farrell, author of "The Crash of the Titans" was featured on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning. In the interview, Farrell discusses former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal, former head of fixed income Osman Semerci, and the combination of factors that brought the company down. The video clip is below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking [...]
In a four-part video series on Business Insider, Greg Farrell, author of "Crash of the Titans," talks with editor Courtney Comstock about key players in the Banbk of America/Merrill Lynch merger. These include: Osman Semerci, former head of fixed income at Merrill Lynch; former Merill Lynch president/COO Greg Fleming and former CEOs Stan O'Neal and [...]
Steve Schaefer, who writes the "Exile on Wall Street" column for Forbes.com, recommended "Crash of the Titans" for weekend reading. He says "[Author Greg] Farrell tells a story based on hundreds of hours of interviews that builds like a hurricane. A storm that began with a mounting pile of of toxic debt that ultimately resulted [...]
Fortune.com today excerpts a key time period in "Crash of the Titans" — the events in October 2007 that led to the dismissal of then Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal (at right). You can read the full excerpt here, or read the excerpt of the excerpt, below: "On the morning of Friday, October 5, the [...]
USA Today featured "Crash of the Titans" in its First Monday roundup of November's notable business related books, TV and movies. Says the paper: "[Author Greg] Farrell tells what really caused the demise [of Merrill Lynch] and how Stan O'Neal, Merrill's CEO, reached out to Warren Buffett for help. He traces how O'Neal's successor, John [...]
GREG FARRELL is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Merrill Lynch had paid out its 2008 bonuses a month ahead of schedule, in December, even though Merrill was in the process of losing $28 billion for the year, and Bank of America needed an extra $20 billion in taxpayer funds to complete its acquisition of the firm. That story sparked an investigation by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo. Greg is a past winner of the American Business Press’s Jesse Neal Award for investigative reporting and a recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship for business journalism. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
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