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...A January Forbes article named SBF as one of the group’s (then) billionaire backers....
...One example was SSG, an Asia-focused fund set up by former Lehman Brothers executives, now owned by the US-based asset manager Ares....
...‘The allegations by Mr Budde were previously raised with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and its non-management directors in the spring of 2008....
...A specialist in bonds, Lehman Brothers had been a pioneer in the new wave of mortgage- backed securities that buoyed Wall Street in the 2002–6 period....
...Rose then sells the loan to Option One Mortgage Co., which then passes it to Lehman Brothers Bank, which then sends it to Lehman Brothers Holdings....
...Former Lehman Brothers trader and now prolific Twitterer, Lawrence McDonald, is going for the latter in his latest Huffington Post column....
...Officially, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were investment companies; Washington Mutual was a savings & loan; AIG was an insurance company, GMAC and GE Capital were subsidiaries of industrial corporations...
...Will the institutions we work for or invest in suddenly implode, like Bear Stearns or Enron or Lehman Brothers or Bernard L. Madoff Securities? When will the next crisis hit, and who will it hurt?...
...Bradford & Bingley was clearly the former; Lehman Brothers the latter. What did for Fortis?...
...In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Merrill Lynch takeover and the government bail-out of AIG, 60 per cent of real estate executives questioned by law firm DLA Piper said the credit crisis...
...The deal, led by Goldman Sachs and RBS and arranged by Lehman Brothers, was sold to just two very large investors....
...The proprietary trading groups and principal investments represent a large portion of their profitability. How can bank holding companies use prop trading?...
...Others, like US investment bank Lehman Brothers, for example, are considering halting all new loans from UK subprime mortgage units....
...The disappearance of Bear leaves only Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers as big broker-dealers....
...It said that its new joint venture with Lehman Brothers, set up last year, to tap the subprime market had lent £80m in the first quarter. The loans are taken on to Lehman Brothers’ balance sheet....
...A&L will write the mortgages and the assets will then be securitised by Lehman Brothers, meaning A&L does not put them on its balance sheet. Abbey National is also looking at entering the market....
...Mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester provides an update on Friday. Lehman Brothers on Thursday maintained its “neutral” stance on the sector....
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