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Non-Tech : Derivatives: Darth Vader's Revenge -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Worswick who wrote (2054)	12/15/2011 12:05:02 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 2794

Yeah.. read that yesterday.. And was struck by the fact that DB was still leveraged to that extent. That's twice what Bear Stearns or Lehman were leveraged.. In fact, I believe that's why our 5 leading IBs requested the ability to go 40:1 leverage.. They just couldn't compete with the excessive gearing and state backed status of the European banks. Did you know that Deutsche Bank is levered 60:1 on a TCE/assets basis, and that its Basel "risk-weighted" assets are only $450 billion, but actual balance sheet assets are $3 trillion?