Comments on: E-Trade and Ameritrade:Pre-Merger Housecleaning? http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bad Credit Home Mortgage Loan » Blog Archive » E-Trade and Ameritrade:Pre-Merger Housecleaning? http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180515 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:52:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180515 [...] E-Trade and Ameritrade:Pre-Merger Housecleaning? In a post-market-bell bomb, E-Trade (ETFC) lowered its 2007 profit guidance by 31%. Even worse was why: It’s backing out of wholesale mortgages. This is, on the face of it, scary stuff. Few predicted E-Trade would be broad sided by the mortgage mess. So, the story in the financial press is tha… [...]

]]> By: The Jackel http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180514 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:14:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180514 Ameritrade goes cheap on everything. Their headquarters is in an abandoned Footlocker and JC Penny retail location in a shuttered Omaha shopping mall. Apparently they went cheap on security too.

]]> By: RandomThoughts http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180513 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:48:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180513 You think this is their biggest problem? Ask why their compliance department isn’t allowed to talk with the business units. If the SEC wanted to, things wouldn’t be pretty.

]]> By: jonah http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180512 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:35:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180512 If Ameritrade merges with E-Trade I’m moving my account.

]]> By: KS http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180511 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:11:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180511 Credit reports are already free, they should offer free credit scores…

]]> By: herman manfred http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180510 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:20:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/18/e-trade-and-ameritradepre-merger-housecleaning/#comment-180510 The Ameritrade story is changing over time – before they said something like “No evidence of ss#s being taken” now they’re saying “No legacy Waterhouse ss#s taken and no evidence of others’ss#s being taken”.

That is, they’re STILL figuring out what’s happening.

Every customer should ask for free credit reports for a decade.

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