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The failure of Lehman Brothers a year ago highlighted the scale of the financial meltdown and global recession.
These 21st century banks have become deadly, systemically risky dominoes that can crush us all if they fail, or can bankrupt us all with debt if we have to bail them out.
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One year on from the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers - the biggest bankruptcy in US corporate history - the BBC is to launch Aftershock, a new season investigating the impact of the events that followed on economies and people around the world.
Japan's top securities firm Nomura declared its purchase of large parts of failed US bank Lehman Brothers "a resounding success" Wednesday as it posted a second
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Sep 14, 2009 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) --
Tokyo, Sept. 14 Kyodo - A Tokyo court sentenced a former president of a medical consulting company to 15 years in prison and 5 million yen in fines on Monday for conspiracy in defrauding a Japanese unit of failed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. using fabricated documents of Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp.
The Tokyo District Court found Shigenori Saito, 47, who was president of Asclepius Ltd., guilty of conspiring to deceive the Japanese arm of the now-defunct US securities company into investing 37.1 billion yen in bogus hospital restructuring projects between August and November in 2007. The punishment given by the court was in line with what the prosecutors have sought.
Presiding Judge Osamu Iguchi said Saito played an "integral part in the crime by telling his accomplices to forge documents" that carried the letterhead of a Marubeni vice-president. His conspirators included former Marubeni employee Yuzuru Yamanaka, 36, who has been indicted on fraud and other charges.
Saito was also ordered to pay a surcharge of some 412 million yen, the same amount of money he earned in March last year in insider trading, the court said.
He made the profit by selling off a total of 11,500 shares in LTT Bio-Pharma Co., the parent company of Saito's firm, before disclosing that his company had become unable to reimburse investors for contributions they made to its capital and that it was withdrawing from a capital tie-up with the parent firm, it said.
Source: Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, in English 1022 gmt 14 Sep 09
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Companies: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (LEHMQ), Marubeni Corp. (MARUY)
Aug 27, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) --
Lehman Brothers Holdings has selected Citadel Solutions to provide administration services, including the creation of an asset servicing platform.
Citadel Solutions said that it will leverage its proprietary technology and team of experts to support Lehman Brothers Holdings (LBHI) in managing middle and back-office processing for its derivative, corporate bank loan,
commodity and principal investment portfolios.
The implementation of the Citadel Solutions platform is anticipated to begin in September 2009, and to be fully operational in 2010.
In addition to providing ongoing services for LBHI's asset classes, Citadel
Solutions will supply technology and middle-office support during the wind-down of the Lehman Estate over an anticipated three- to four-year period.
The retention of Citadel Solutions on an interim basis was approved by the bankruptcy court and is subject to the negotiation and execution of definitive
documentation.
Jeff Donaldson, head of LBHI's technology transition effort and managing director for Alvarez & Marsal, a professional services firm overseeing LBHI's restructuring, said: "Following an extensive search, we are confident that Citadel Solutions has the technological capabilities and expertise we need to execute our transition strategy. Citadel Solutions's single platform is a flexible and cost-effective means to service LBHI's complex and diverse asset portfolios. It clearly meets our objective of maximizing value to creditors in the most suitable way."
John Buckley, president of Citadel Solutions, said: "Our subject-matter expertise in all aspects of capital markets will enable us to build an infrastructure to efficiently wind-down the assets held by the Lehman Estate. By leveraging our technology, domain capabilities and team culture, we will provide agile and innovative solutions to our partners at LBHI."
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Companies: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (LEHMQ)
Sep 19, 2009 (Zacks.com via COMTEX) --
Morgan Stanley (MS) sold a claim on $1.2 billion of Lehman Brothers' (LEHMQ) liquidation to about 10 different investors this week. The claim was connected to approximately 10,000 derivative transactions for which Lehman was the counterparty. The sales price was 38.5% of the face value or $462 million. Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2008. This was the high water mark of the credit market turmoil. After this big fall, some counterparties suffered huge losses, which are now looking to claim. Some investors have the capability of recovering more on the claims than what the original sellers of the claims expect. As a result, demand for buying and selling those claims has increased significantly. Furthermore, with signs of recovery, the recent market stability boosted the trading opportunities in these claims as their value increased over the last six months. One of the first big blocks of claims was traded by Deutsche Bank (DB) in June. Deutsche traded more than EUR500 million in the liquidation of Lehman's European operating company, Lehman Brothers International Europe. Last month, hedge fund Citadel Investment Group sold a claim on $423 million of Lehman Brothers' assets to Credit Suisse Group (CS), according to a filing at New York Bankruptcy Court. Though cyclical headwinds and market turmoil are expected to persist for a while, we believe that the management of Morgan Stanley is staying the course to emerge from the downturn and building a strong competitive position. However, the current backdrop remains challenging, given the weak housing market and increasing unemployment. Morgan Stanley's second quarter results experienced continued improvement in credit default spreads and it was among the first banks to repay the bailout money. Given the continued momentum in its core institutional securities franchise and cost containment measures, we expect Morgan Stanley to deliver strong results in the near future.
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Companies: Credit Suisse Group (CS), Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (LEHMQ), Morgan Stanley (MS)
TOKYO, Sep 02, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) --
Assets entrusted to investment advisory firms totaled 156.78 trillion yen (US$1.7 trillion) as of June 30, rising 10.3 per cent from the end of March and increasing for the second straight quarter, the Japan Securities Investment Advisers Association reported Tuesday.
The value of such assets shrank sharply in the wake of the financial market confusion following the collapse of U.S. brokerage Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. But amid a stock market recovery, the figure returned to its late-September level.
Assets under contract with public pension funds and other domestic clients climbed 8.9 per cent, marking the sixth consecutive quarterly uptick, while the tally for overseas clients jumped 11.8 per cent for the fourth successive gain.
As investors sought safety, funds consisting of domestic bonds rose 22 per cent, the highest growth among all investment vehicles.
"Pension funds are increasingly opting to avoid risks," says an association official.
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Companies: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (LEHMQ)
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers confirmed that workers in the financial services sector faced a bleak future. It triggered a series of cataclysmic events in the global financial services sector.
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Michel Danechi Head of Emerging Markets Equities Lehman Brothers Michel Danechi is the Managing Director at Lehman Brothers responsible for Emerging Markets within European Equities. Mr Danechi joined Lehman Brothers and the newly created Emerging Markets desk in July this year.