Atonement is complicated. JPMorgan has reached a tentative settlement of state and federal investigations over the sale of mortgage-backed securities that were at the heart of the financial crisis. The deal is positive for investors in that it would quantify the cost of this settlement with US regulators (JPMorgan faces a litany of other investigations) and represent a big step toward putting this issue behind the bank. But investors want certainty. To that end, the final deal may fall short of resolving the mortgage overhang for JPMorgan.
贖罪是一件複雜的事情。摩根大通(JPMorgan)已因出售引發金融危機的抵押貸款支持證券(MBS),就多項針對它的州和聯邦調查達成初步和解。和解的達成對投資者來說是個好訊息,它既確定了與美國監管機構和解的最終金額(摩根大通還面臨一連串其他監管機構的調查),也意味著摩根大通像最終了結此事邁出了一大步。但投資者需要的是確定。就這一點而言,最終的和解或許並不能徹底解決MBS問題懸在摩根大通頭上的威脅。