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Speaker 1: That's a Bloomberg Business flash. This is taking stock with

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Speaker 1: Lean Hayes and pin Box on Bloomberg Radio. Taking stock

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Speaker 1: of Deutsche Bank. The cost of ensuring Deutsche Bank subordinated

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Speaker 1: that rose to a record all amid growing concerns about

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Speaker 1: the lenders of financial health. Here to tell us more

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Speaker 1: about Deutsche Bank, It's role in the global financial system,

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Speaker 1: and perhaps what happens next, We've got Chris Whalen. He's

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Speaker 1: senior managing director and head of research at Kroll bond

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Speaker 1: rating agency. Chris Whalen, Thanks very much for being with us. Hey, Hi,

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Speaker 1: how are you, pim? I'm I'm fine. How if I

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Speaker 1: was at Deutsche Bank, would I be saying that? Probably

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Speaker 1: not a tough day. Um. You know the comments from

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Speaker 1: unfortunately all of the leaders in Europe have their eyes

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Speaker 1: to really focus on what's needed to get the bank

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Speaker 1: king system in their economy straightened out. So it's kind

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Speaker 1: of power for the course, I'm afraid. Okay, So give

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Speaker 1: us the sort of the the a b cs of

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with Deutsche Bank. Besides the fact that they

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Speaker 1: as fourteen billion dollars. One of the astute European bank

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Speaker 1: watchers I talked to earlier today said, you know, they've

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Speaker 1: just never come to grips with recapitalizing their banks. But

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Speaker 1: what is you know, if you had to give it

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Speaker 1: seconds or less, what's wrong with Deutsche Bank? Well? Two

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Speaker 1: little capital number one, a business that is focused primarily

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Speaker 1: on the capital markets. They don't have much of a

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Speaker 1: lending business in Germany, a traditional banking business, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the capital markets have been tough, Kathleen. So all of

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Speaker 1: the big banks, universal banks as we refer to them,

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Speaker 1: think we're going to see foreign any pour into the

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Speaker 1: European banking system. Be think Chinese investors might want to

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Speaker 1: come and invest in a Deutsche Bank, Well, I think

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Speaker 1: they would love to pim But the necessary condition to

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Speaker 1: real market. The Europeans tell us that there's a trillion

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Speaker 1: actually is in terms of net assets. You know, for example,

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Speaker 1: to the rescue about Monte Depeche and again, you know, no,

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Speaker 1: the government's got to go first. And this is what

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Speaker 1: you know. I hope the EU leadership is eventually gonna

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Speaker 1: It seems like all they've been able to really to

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Speaker 1: banking union in Europe is to build a beautiful building,

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Speaker 1: far away from that. Oh completely, Kathleen. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: ultimately I think the Germans and the Italians are going

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a good analogy for the Europeans

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Speaker 1: They see opportunity, but they don't know what the opportunity is.

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Speaker 1: Because everything in Europe, you know, international UH financial accounting

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Speaker 1: with a bad asset. Hey, Chris said, just a thought

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Speaker 1: If Deutsche Bank gets downgraded again, I think you may

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Speaker 1: How could they let Deutsche Bank go down? Well, they

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Speaker 1: So they look at Deutsche Banker. What did they see?

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Speaker 1: They see the big brother of bankers trust, all right,

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Speaker 1: they see a London capital markets operation and they don't

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Speaker 1: see an immediate domestic threat. But what they have to

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Speaker 1: a deflation after a large bank fails, you have big problems.

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Speaker 1: Benevolence and a willingness to be flexible is always better

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Speaker 1: because then, as Pim said before, we can get the

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Speaker 1: a generalized debt deflation, which is destructive for everyone. Chris,

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Speaker 1: The market cap now, let's call it, what about sixteen

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a very important bank. It's a large

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Speaker 1: servicer here in the United States. Deutsche Bank is one

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Speaker 1: is not a trivial thing. There are a trustee in

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Speaker 1: US authorities are talking to their counterparties in Germany and

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Speaker 1: do you really want to let me bank go? Dan Trulo,

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Speaker 1: is it Are the regulars wrong now to keep piling

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Speaker 1: restraining growth. Regulation, over regulation, the demonization of banks instead

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Speaker 1: and wrong as a result. You know, the politicians caused

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Speaker 1: a crisis, Kathleen, and then they turned around and blamed

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Speaker 1: an important thing to hear from. Chris Whalen, Senior Managing

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