FIG CHIEFS SURVEY NEW FINANCIAL LANDSCAPE: LEADERSHIP SERIES ROUND TABLE

摘要

The collapse of Lehman Brothers was a cataclysmic blow, not just to the financial sector, but to the entire global economy. Bankers say that despite bank bailouts, government guarantee schemes and mone-tary easing, the future of many financial institutions remains unclear. Still, the heads of financial institutions groups (FIG) at six leading banks report that government intervention is starting to stabilise the financial system and that the financial mar-kets are opening again.rnHowever, bankers say financial markets are still struggling both with opaque capital structures and the huge size of banks' bal-ance sheets. And as fast as banks write off bad assets and reduce their balance sheets, they are also trying to maintain capital levels imposed by regulators at a time when it is hard to raise new capital.