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…The global financial system simply cannot afford for Deutsche Bank to fail, and right now it is literally melting down right in front of our eyes…[Indeed,] many now believe that the end is near for Deutsche Bank. Here’s why.
@$…On July 7 the beleaguered German giant announced that it is laying off 18,000 employees—roughly one-fifth of its global workforce—and pursuing a vast restructuring plan that most notably includes shutting down its global equities trading business…These moves may delay Deutsche Bank’s inexorable march into oblivion, but not by much and, as Deutsche Bank collapses, it could take a whole lot of others down with it at the same time.@Your Finances
- According to Wall Street On Parade, the bank had 49 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives as of the end of last year…putting it in the same league as the… U.S. juggernauts JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, which logged in at $48 trillion, $47 trillion and $42 trillion, respectively.
- The actual credit risk to Deutsche Bank is much, much lower than the notional value of its derivatives contracts, but we are still talking about an obscene amount of exposure and this is especially true when we consider the state of Deutsche Bank’s balance sheet.
- According to Nasdaq.com, as of the end of last year, the bank had total assets of $1.541T and total liabilities of $1.469T. That’s not much in the way of equity…and things have deteriorated rapidly since that time. In fact, it is being reported that $1T a day is being pulled out of the bank at this point.
@$$…The global derivatives market played a starring role during the last financial crisis, and it will play a starring role in the next one too…
- The…failure of Deutsche Bank could quickly become a major crisis for the entire global financial system…as some of the largest “too big to fail banks” in the United States, such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, as well as other mega banks in Europe, are “heavily interconnected financially” to Deutsche Bank.
- In fact, the IMF concluded that Deutsche Bank posed a greater threat to global financial stability than any other bank as a result of these interconnections (and that was when its market capitalization was tens of billions of dollars larger than it is today).
Conclusion
It appears that the next “Lehman Brothers moment” may be playing out right in front of our eyes. Now more than ever, keep a close eye on Deutsche Bank, because it appears that they could be the first really big domino to fall.
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The Deusche Bank share price has halved in the last month. I would be interested in your current views given the Coved 19 crisis in Europe. I understand that Deusche Bank has large exposures to Italian Banks and is the derivative whore in the banking world.
If banks have expposures to businesses that have effectively been shut, eg tourism,restaurants and entertainment then this starts to get real scary.
I would really welcome your current thoughts.
Regards
Tom
Can we have such topics explained in more simpler versions. Like think you are trying to explain this to a fourth grade student getting into fivth grade.
We are not into banking or other financial industries. Rightly said 80% of American are oblivious and so is 90% of the global population. Now i have got some savings in the bank. Will that also dissapear, meaning frozen or me not allowed to touch it or other damaging consequences? The way i see it is when big companies close down, their employees with big salaries get unemployed and this domino effect even touches the grocery store operator as buyers get lesser n lesser. Am i right? But i got some savings, will that be also locked up? Want to know how those with a nest egg can end up into the streets.