Word: goldman
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Former AIG chief executive Maurice (Hank) Greenberg told Congress on Thursday morning that as much as $50 billion in payments that AIG has made in the past few months to banks and other financial firms, including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, should not have been made. Greenberg believes the banks should be forced to reinvest some of those trading profits in AIG by buying the company's shares...
...process of unwinding its large derivative-trading book; in the past few months, it has terminated as much as $1.1 billion in derivative contracts. Traders say Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and others have either driven hard bargains with AIG or made specific trades that would benefit from AIG's problems. Those moves are exacerbating the losses at AIG and increasing the cost of the insurer's bailout. "There is an argument to be made that the recent profits at the banks are because of AIG," says Bianco...
...loss the PPIP would create is still the question, and few analysts are willing to put a number on that the figure. Goldman Sachs estimates that on average banks value mortgage loans on their books at $0.91 on the dollar. That means they agree those loans are worth 9% less than their original value. The market, though, thinks many of those loans are worth much less. Some highly rated mortgage bonds based on subprime loans recently traded for as little...
...Treasury Department has said that PPIP program could buy up to $1 trillion in "legacy" banks loans and other debt. That suggests banks could lose up to $210 billion on those sales alone (see chart below). Citigroup, for example, has about $200 billion in residential U.S. real estate loans. Goldman estimates that Citigroup values those loans on its books at about $0.94. If it were to sell half of its mortgage loans, Citigroup would lose an estimated $23 billion, about 15% of the total capital the banks had back...
...decades pure investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley dominated M&A. But in the past few years, the ability of the large banks to offer billions of dollars in loans to finance transactions has raised their standing among dealmakers. Citigroup has been the most successful in wresting away this profitable business...