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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Deutsche Bank - the snowflake that could trigger an avalance

Avalanches build up one special snowflake at a time. The last snowflake launches the avalanche. Financial avalanche specialists are wondering if the troubled Deutsche Bank will earn the honor of being that last special snowflake, the Lehman Brothers of the latest recession.

After Brexit, the IMF warned that the bank was the most significant contributor to systemic risks. Experts have expressed fears about its undercapitalized state for several years. Alt-M’s Keven Dowd confirmed that those fears are justified in his post “Is Deutsche Bank Kaputt?” He wrote that the bank claimed a leverage ratio of 3.5 percent in its 2015 annual report: