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Paul Schulte, a former Lehman Brothers star analyst who is now with Japan's Nomura (which took over bankrupt Lehman's Asian operations), recently compared bank balance sheets in various countries and discovered significant differences. One telling disparity is leverage. The higher the leverage, the greater the risk, and despite efforts to put them on sounder financial footing, U.S. and European banks remain overstretched by historical standards and relative to their peers. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...dealers grew up that was subject to the same risks as banks but not the same rules. In September, Lehman Brothers, a major cog in this system, filed for Chapter 11. In one sense the process worked as designed--much of Lehman lives on under the names Barclays and Nomura. But the resulting run on the financial system sent Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson scurrying in panic to Capitol Hill to ask for a $700 billion bailout...
...sees chiefly in regional banks don't develop into a systemic infection. Japan's regional banks don't appear to be facing an immediate crisis, say economists, but the government wants to be prepared. "It's a safety net for smaller institutions," says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities...
...clear message from Asia is that more intervention is needed to restore the financial system. The crisis is "now too big to be solved by the private sector," says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist of Nomura Securities in Tokyo. It's a lesson Asia learned a decade...
...Because many other Asian countries are growing at least three times as fast, most analysts view Nomura's acquisition of Lehman's Asia assets for $225 million as a steal. MUFG, too, was already looking beyond Japan for growth. In August, it paid $3.5 billion to buy the remaining 35% of Union Bank of California that it didn't already own. Union Bank of California has a relatively healthy balance sheet and its stock is undervalued, analysts...