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Kidder, Peabody & Co. Former type Subsidiary (Inactive) of UBS AG Industry Investment banking Fate Acquired by Paine Webber Founded 1865 Defunct 1994 Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts, United States Products Financial Services Kidder, Peabody & Co. was a U.S.-based securities firm, established in Massachusetts in 1865. Its operations included investment banking, brokerage, and trading. The Firm was sold to the General Electric Corporation in 1986 and following heavy losses was subsequently sold to PaineWebber in 1994. After the acquisition by PaineWebber, the Kidder, Peabody name was dropped, ending the firm's 130 year presence on Wall Street.[1] In November 2000, PaineWebber itself was merged with UBS AG. Contents 1 History 1.1 Early history 1.2 Kidder and the 1980s Insider Trading Scandal 1.3 1994 Bond trading scandal 1.4 September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks 2 Associated people 3 See also 4 References History This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2008) Early history Henry P. Kidder, co-founder of Kidder Peabody c. 1908 Kidder, Peabody & Co. was established in April 1865 by Henry P. Kidder, Francis H. Peabody, and Oliver W. Peabody. The firm was formed through a reorganization of its predecessor company, J.E. Thayer & Brother, where the three founding partners had previously worked as clerks. Francis H. Peabody, co-founder of Kidder Peabody c. 1908 Kidder, Peabody acted as a commercial bank, investment bank, and merchant bank. The firm had an active securities business, dealing in treasury bonds and municipal bonds, as well as corporate bonds and stocks. Kidder also actively traded and invested in securities for its own account. In the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash, Kidder Peabody was in a perilous situation. In 1931, Albert H. Gordon bought the struggling firm with financial backing from Stone and Webster. Gordon helped rebuild the firm by focusing on specific niche markets including utility finance and municipal bonds. Stone and Webster had been an integrated company which designed utility projects, built them financed and operated them for municipalities. Stone and Webster transferred it's finance operations to Kidder Peabody. Oliver Peabody, co-founder of Kidder Peabody c. 1908 Kidder Peabody's offices on Devonshire Street in Boston c. 1908 In 1967, Kidder, Peabody and Co. helped to arrange a deal whereby the US Commodity Credit Corporation invested $21.8 million in the failing Lebanese Intra Bank, a cornerstone of the Lebanese banking industry.[2] This move probably contributed to preventing a major financial crisis in Lebanon from worsening. Kidder and the 1980s Insider Trading Scandal Shortly after GE bought Kidder in 1986, a skein of insider trading scandals, which came to define the Street of the 1980s and were depicted in the James B. Stewart bestseller Den of Thieves, swept Wall Street. The firm was implicated when former Kidder executive Martin Siegel—who had since left for Michael Milken's junk-bond investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert—admitted to trading on the inside information. Also implicated by Martin Siegel was Richard Wigton, head of arbitrage trading for Kidder Peabody. Wigton was the only executive handcuffed in his office as part of the trading scandal, an act that was later depicted in the movie Wall Street. With Rudy Giuliani, then the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, threatening to indict the firm, GE conducted an internal investigation that revealed Kidder executives hadn't done enough to prevent the improper sharing of information. In response, GE fired Kidder chairman Ralph DeNunzio and two other senior executives and stopped trading for its own account. 1994 Bond trading scandal Kidder, Peabody was later involved in a trading scandal related to false profits booked over the course of 1990–1994. Joseph Jett, a trader on the government bond desk, was found to have systematically exploited a flaw in Kidders computer systems, generating large false profits. When the fraud was discovered, it was determined that Jett had lost 75 million dollars over the four years instead of the apparent profit of 275 million dollars over the same period. The SEC later concluded Jett had committed securities fraud and banned him from the industry. In the rush of bad press coverage following the disclosure of the overstated profits, General Electric sold Kidder Peabody's assets to PaineWebber for $670 million in October 1994, closing the transaction in January 1995. September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks On September 11, the former offices of Kidder, Peabody (who were occupied by Paine Webber as they had assumed the lease as part of the acquisition in 1994) were among many businesses impacted by the terrorist attacks. The company had offices on the 101st Floor of One World Trade Center, also known as the North Tower. Two Paine Webber employees lost their lives. Associated people This section requires expansion. Prince Abbas Hilmi, Vice President of Kidder, Peabody & Co. / Executive Director of Kidder, Peabody International Investments (1986–1989)[3] See also Paine Webber General Electric Martin Siegel Joseph Jett References ^ Kidder Peabody Name To Vanish -- Venerable Presence Fades After 129 Years. The Wall Street Journal, January 18, 1995 ^ New York Times, Oct 12, 1967. ^ "Prince Abbas Hilmi". Egyptian Investment Management Association. http://www.eima.org.eg/prince.asp. Retrieved 2010-10-09.  Now It's Joseph Jett's Turn "Wall Street Lynching"- Joseph Jett interview. Kidder, Peabody: New Style. Time Magazine, Mar. 30, 1931 GE's Investment in Kidder Finally Pays Off. TheStreet.com "A Raid on Wall Street". Time magazine, Feb. 23, 1987 v · d · eUBS Historical Predecessors Union Bank of Switzerland Bank in Winterthur • Toggenburger Bank • Interhandel • Phillips & Drew • Schröder, Münchmeyer Swiss Bank Corporation Basler & Zürcher Bankverein • Basler Handelsbank • Warburg Dillon Read • S. G. Warburg & Co. • Dillon, Read & Co. • Brinson Partners • O'Connor & Associates Paine Webber, Inc. Paine & Webber • Jackson & Curtis • Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co. • Kidder, Peabody & Co. • Mitchell Hutchins • Union Securities Current Executives and Directors Kaspar Villiger (Chairman) • Oswald Grübel (CEO) • Sally Bott • John Cryan • Markus U. Diethelm • John A. Fraser • Ulrich Körner • William G. Parrett • Alex Wilmot-Sitwell • Robert Wolf • Chi-Won Yoon Former executives Gary P. Brinson • John Costas • Blair Effron • Marten Hoekstra • Jerker Johansson • Ken Moelis • Marcel Ospel • Marcel Rohner • Olivier Sarkozy