Capital Markets Memorandum 003
by: Eli FieldsPublished on: 28/04/2026In front of Representative Al Green of Texas sat seven men: Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Michael Corbat of Citigroup, Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, James Gorman of Morgan Stanley, Charles Scharf of Bank of New York Mellon, and Ronald O'Hanley of State Street. Between them, these seven individuals governed institutions with comb
Capital Markets Memorandum 002
by: Eli FieldsPublished on: 28/04/2026The first analytical point is definitional: the core operating costs of a regulated depository institution do not scale linearly with asset size. They are, in the language of cost accounting, predominantly fixed
Capital Markets Memorandum 001
by: Eli FieldsPublished on: 28/04/2026Architectural Brief No. 008 proposed that Black-owned banks unite for scale. It named the problem — fragmentation — and described the mechanism — a shared securitization consortium — through which that fragmentation could be solved.
