Thursday, December 6, 2012

Look Who Hid $12 Billion In Losses During the Financial Crisis




The Financial Times' Tom Braithwaite, Kara Scannell and Michael Mackenzie are out with a big scoop that Deutsche Bank hid $12 billion in losses during the financial crisis therefore avoiding a government bailout during the financial crisis, three former employees allege in complaints to the SEC.

The FT reports, citing sources familiar, that the complaints allege that Deutsche misvalued a huge position in its credit derivatives portfolio by not taking into consideration the losses it faced when the market went down in 2007 to 2009.  If it did, it may have needed a bailout during the downturn…..

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-former-deutsche-employees-allege-bank-hid-12-billion-in-losses-2012-12#ixzz2EFsgyAwB

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