Jerome Kerviel showed us what will happen when the right controls aren’t in place at a large trading organization. Bernard Madoff is accused of taking $50 billion of his investors’ money in an intricately woven hedge fund scam. Countrywide insider Rene Rebollo was arrested and charged in August with stealing personal information of an estimated 2 million mortgage applicants. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took over as head of the Federal Reserve from a revered leader, Alan Greenspan. Sheila Bair was the voice in the wilderness before anyone else spotted the problems of subprime loans.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/top-newsmakers-2008-a-1134