A source last night named the man as Li Junjie.
The incident apparently had some internal impact on JP Morgan’s business activities in Hong Kong – at least one business meeting was cancelled immediately after the suicide happened.
Posted on 02/18/2014 7:09:28 AM PST by Nachum
The banker suicide wave that started in late January has now become an epidemic, and it seems to be focusing on one bank: JP Morgan.
After the first suicide that took place in JPM's London headquarters, ending the life of 39 year old Gabriel Magee, a vice president in the investment bank’s technology department, next it was 37 year old Ryan Crane, an executive director in the firm's program trading division, who died under still unknown circumstances.
Moments ago a third JPMorgan banker committed suicide, this time at the JPMorgan Charter House Asia headquarters in central Hong Kong, where a 33 year old man who was said to have been an FX trader for JPM, just jumped to his death.
Not much is known yet about the circumstances of the suicide, however according to early reports, the man was 33-years-old, surnamed Lee, and believed to be a forex trader for JP Morgan.
Commuters noticed the man at the top of Chater House around 2pm to 3pm in the afternoon and called the police but policemen who arrived at the scene failed to convince the man not to jump. The deceased was sent to the hospital immediately but was pronounced dead on arrival. As several lanes on Connaught Road Central were closed because of the incident, traffic in the area were chaotic.
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Things are jumping over at J P Morgue.
A source last night named the man as Li Junjie.
The incident apparently had some internal impact on JP Morgan’s business activities in Hong Kong – at least one business meeting was cancelled immediately after the suicide happened.
Looks like Obama’s policies are finally actually creating some job openings.
Does anyone have a tally/stats going on these Banker Jumpers?
Perhaps start a site making book.
I told him "Don't tell people that... tell 'em you play the piano in a whorehouse. They'll respect you more."
They should develop a vaccine against this....
they do have 260,000 employees, so how big of a surprise is this really, in a statistical sense?
I used to work in the magazine industry: Teacher is asking her elementary school class what their fathers do for a living. Johnny's dad is a fireman. Suzie's is a farmer. Then Billy says, "My dad's a piccolo-player in a whorehouse."
Teacher steps in, "Billy, shame on you! I happen to know your father writes for the Daily Mirror. Why did you say a thing like that?"
"My dad always tells us—it would be better than working for Hearst!"
wouldn’t be except for the level of the employees invovled - executives you might get 1 or 3 a year, but not in such a short span of time.
This story line could be the launch of a great suspense thriller series.
though “FX trader” is not exactly a senior position
I seem to recall bond trader Joe Jett was about that age when he incurred losses that forced Kidder Peabody’s sale to GE.
If you think you might be in a position to be accused of whistleblowing, it would be smart to take a snake eater survival course and carry weaponry. There should be a training manual for whistleblowing out there.
Here is a nice inspirational song to give the banksters some support:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8
Makes me wonder if multiple people are viewing a particular video, file or document which contains a subliminal message to jump or kill yourself.
I think it’s because they know that this world is a house of cards that is about to fall.
JP Morgan = Soros
agree the others were executive directors and VPs... this could be someone in the know that was being looked at for a fall or just some shmuck that tried to impress and lost big.
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