Overlooked is that Chase also has signed a contract to continue with First Marblehead.
First Marblehead, a Boston company that securitizes and services student loans, was another one shown the door.
The crowd favorite on the final day of competition was fourth-place finisher Amber Born, 14, of Marblehead, Mass.
Other high profile Massachusetts companies with zero women on their boards include Safety Insurance and First Marblehead Corporation.
First Marblehead, a student-loan company, did flame out most spectacularly in the early days of the financial crisis.
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And First Marblehead just signed up new customers: U.S. Bancorp and Zions Bank.
And since 1985, Rebecca Parris has come north from the Boston area each year to sing at Marblehead Summer Jazz.
The show-stealer during the semifinals was 14-year-old Amber Born of Marblehead, Mass.
Well, the stock of FIRST MARBlEHEAD (33, FMD) has been flunking lately.
Adding fuel to that fear: One of First Marblehead's biggest customers, JPMorgan Chase, recently agreed to buy another student loan firm, Collegiate Funding Services.
Now SA has gotten an expensive taste of its own medicine in the form of a lawsuit by yachtsman and First Marblehead Chief Executive Daniel M.
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Our Marblehead show closes with a free-floating song from pianist Kenny Werner's trio: "If I Should Lose You, " with Scott Colley, bass, and Tom Rainey, drums.
Lenders, like First Marblehead and its rival SLM, better known as Sallie Mae, originate loans but then try to get them off their books by selling them to investors.
The former Prudential derivatives trader rejoined First Marblehead in September 2008 after the stock had lost most of its value because of the collapsing value of its loan portfolio.
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With the private student-loan market expected to keep expanding at a 30% annual clip, Thomas Brown, manager of the Second Curve Capital hedge fund, expects explosive growth for First Marblehead.
Bond insurance guarantees investors will get their principal back if borrowers default on their loans, but First Marblehead will have to pay premiums that will shave its profit margin, he noted.
Lenders, like First Marblehead and its rival SLM (nyse: SLM - news - people ), better known as Sallie Mae, originate loans but then try to get them off their books by selling them to investors.
Aside from the problems in the bond markets in general and the asset-backed sector in particular, First Marblehead has had to contend with an investigation into the student-lending industry announced by New York in August and questions about the planned acquisition of Sallie Mae.
Ricky Ian Gordon is composing "Intimate Apparel, " with Lynn Nottage adapting her 2003 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York, and composer Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner are working to expand "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, " their one-act opera based on Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill that opened at Cooperstown's Glimmerglass Opera in August 2011.
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