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...time being, Citi's M&A team appears unaffected. Shafir says none of the hundred bankers who work in his division have left the firm on their own. And the firm is expected to rank among the top global M&A advisers when the so-called League Tables that rank investment banks come out for the first quarter of 2009 in the next week...
...notes that last Thursday when the House resolution was passed to impose a special bonus tax on employees of many troubled financial institutions, including Citi, nothing out of the ordinary happened in Citi's offices. He says he hasn't had to spend a lot of time defending the firm, nor has he noticed any government intervention in running his part of the business. "In the last several months I have gotten calls from friends asking how I am doing," says Shafir. "But I would guess that is no different from any investment banker at any firm...
Shafir joined Citi last October from Lehman Brothers, shortly after that firm went bankrupt. Shafir says he in no way regrets the move, and has no plans to leave Citi anytime soon. "I'm here because I want to be," says Shafir. "I am very proud of this place...
Geithner argued that the power is needed to ensure that a floundering firm doesn't start a domino collapse among other companies doing business with it, thereby posing what regulators call "systemic risk" to the whole economy. "This is a prudent, carefully designed proposal to protect our financial system," Geithner said, arguing that if Treasury had had that power a year ago, it could have handled the collapses of Bear Stearns, Lehman and AIG very differently. Other Democrats said the power isn't so radical at all; the FDIC already takes over traditional banks on the verge of collapse - when...
Though politicians on Capitol Hill have made less of it thus far, the other change that Geithner is seeking is even farther-reaching and arguably more controversial on Wall Street. As banks must do now, big hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance companies and others who play in the financial markets would have to open their books (on a confidential basis) regularly to government overseers. Hand in hand with that requirement would be much tougher limits on how much risk any financial firm could take, so that the days of making huge bets on the markets with relatively little...