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Following Lehman Brothers' collapse, rival investment banks are cherry-picking the carcass for talented staff. But the longer term ramifications are ominous. The bank was heavily involved in credit derivatives, and its demise will sour confidence in structured products and derivatives. Naomi Rovnick, Ruth David, Pamela Tang, and Richard Morrow report.
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Bankruptcies of this size are just not supposed to happen. At 5.30am London time this Monday, Lehman Brothers — one of the remaining investment banking giants of Wall Street — announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Barclays Capital provided a small glimmer of hope for the thousands of Lehman Brothers staff in Asia this morning, with the news that it may acquire some of the bankrupt firm’s Asian operations. But some warned that Lehman’s Asian capital markets business may not be Barcap’s number one priority. -
The fate of billions of euros of asset backed securities sponsored by Lehman Brothers, or with the bank as a counterparty, hangs in the balance as Moody’s announced a sweeping review of all such transactions with others expected to follow. Analysts predicted downgrades and defaults in the underlying loans. The threat of forced sales of its real estate assets and asset backed securities also looms large in an already febrile market.
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• $3.9bn Q3 loss racked up after Alt-A hedging failure • $30bn plan to spin-off REI comes too late • Fannie and Freddie bailout euphoria wiped out Lehman Brothers was front, back and centre of events in the credit market this week and at the close in New York yesterday rumours gathered strength that Bank of America is poised to rescue the ailing investment bank.
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Lehman Brothers began the week reshuffling its senior management in global fixed income and across the European investment bank as it attempted to put in place a team that could guide it through an independent future.
