Financial Industry Still Faces Negativity: The Wall Street Reputation Study, launched by Makovsky and released in Oct. 2012, surveyed communications and marketing executives at financial services companies to determine the challenges they face and the solutions needed to rebuilding reputation.
And those challenges are high, with 78% of executives saying negative public perception is the biggest roadblock in rebuilding reputation.
Other highlights include:
-
96% of executives invited negative public perceptions because of their actions or inactions during the financial crisis.
-
At least 8 in 10 communications and marketing executives are worried about negative public reaction to executive compensation in the financial industry.
-
53% of respondents say the “Occupy Wall Street” movement had an impact on their business.
-
74% say increased regulation will help improve trust and reputation.
Source: Makovsky/Echo Research
Follow Scott Van Camp: @svancamp01
The public should be skeptical..watch this documentary that is very well done about the Quants of Wall Street being the alchemists. They talk and tell all about the fictitious code they use to create business models that even Jamie Dimon as we have seen on video several times can’t figure out and says “I don’t know” when asked about how their models work. Fix the flawed math and code and maybe that will help and create more that gives accurate results instead of “desired” results that makes them richer…it’s a fixed game and consumers need to know this. The video talks about the mortgage software and how banks modeled it with formulas that were not always from the real world. How often to you hear true confessions from quants and techs? This time you do.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.hk/2012/09/quants-alchemists-of-wall-street-video.html