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changes in Eurozone bank regulation and supervision resulting from the Single Supervisory Mechanism. … many of its own banking rules and had its own bank regulators and supervisors. The crisis made the shortcomings of this …, committing to a banking union that would better coordinate supervision of banks in the then 18-country Eurozone. A key component …
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Lehman’s U.S. broker-dealer, Lehman Brothers Inc. (LBI), was excluded from the parent company’s bankruptcy filing on September 15, 2008, because it was thought that the solvent subsidiary might be able to wind down its affairs in a normal fashion. However, the force of the parent’s demise...
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On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, sought Chapter 11 …
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greatly exceeded the growth in gross domestic product (GDP); as a result, bank loan balances grew from 1.1 times GDP in 2000 …
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All public companies in the European Union, including Ireland’s major banks, were required to adopt IAS 39 for their annual accounting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2005.  Under the “incurred loss” model of IAS 39, banks could set aside reserves for loan losses only when...
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Investment banks are in the business of taking calculated risks. Risk management infrastructure facilitates the safe pursuit of profits and the balancing of associated risks. By 2006, Lehman Brothers was thought to have a very respectable risk management system, and even its regulator, the...
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between the liquidity of a bank’s assets and the manner in which the bank funds those assets.  The NSFR requires banks to … activities over a one-year timeframe.  One of the areas seen as most affected by this development may be bank participation in … that banks better match their assets and sources of funding is affecting bank business models and what it means for the …
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In December 2011, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of JPMorgan Chase (JPM) instructed the bank … its Risk-Weighted Assets as the bank prepared to adopt the impending Basel III bank capital regulations.  However, the SCP …
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two bank failures, the central bank governors of the G10 countries established the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision … explosion in the complexity of financial regulation. This case explores the history of the efforts to regulate bank capital that …
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When it filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008, Lehman Brothers was an active participant in the derivatives market and was party to 906,000 derivative transactions of all types under 6,120 ISDA Master Agreements with an estimated notional value of $35 trillion. The majority of...
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