Stories tagged with James Cayne
Amidst Bear Stearns takeover, Greenberg and Cayne criticize each other
By Laurie Bennett | May 7, 2008 at 8:35am | 0 
The animosity between Bear Stearns’s former chairman Alan Greenberg and its soon-to-be former chairman James Cayne has become painfully public.
Cayne, Macklowe keep their condos at The Plaza
By Carol Eisenberg | April 8, 2008 at 4:02pm | 0
Another way the rich are different: They don’t have to pay mortgages.
Cayne reported leaving CEO job at Bear Stearns
By A. James Memmott | January 8, 2008 at 1:55pm | 0
In the end, it would seem that the bottom line at Bear Stearns Cos. for James Cayne was the bottom line.
The investment bank’s leader went through public relations hell in November when The Wall Street Journal reported that he had spent a lot of time playing either golf or bridge in July while his company was struggling with losses in its sub-prime mortgage funds.
Mortgage mess sinks Wall Street exec
By Gary Jacobson | August 6, 2007 at 1:51pm | 0
The subprime mortgage mess claimed its first big Wall Street name Sunday as Bear Stearns forced out co-president Warren Spector.
Bear Stearns, which had two of its hedge funds collapse in June erasing more than $1.5 billion in capital, is a big player in bonds that back high-risk mortgages.
Spector, seen by some as the eventual successor to Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne, resigned. At a board meeting Sunday, directors determined that Alan Schwartz would be the sole president of the company.
