Tag: GFC

  • Deutsche Bank pays $9.5 billion for contributing to GFC

    Deutsche Bank pays $9.5 billion for contributing to GFC

    Deutsche Bank this week reached a final settlement with the US Justice Department over their handling of mortgage-backed securities prior to 2008. The bank agreed to pay $9.5 billion (or US$7.2 billion) and admitted to misleading investors. Deutsche Bank admitted to misleading customers about the loans underlying the securities, including falsely claiming that loans had been…

  • Australia 2nd Most Likely to Suffer Debt Crisis

    Australia 2nd Most Likely to Suffer Debt Crisis

    Forbes recently released a study into which top seven countries were the most vulnerable to a debt crisis in the next 1-3 years, and we in Australia were #2 – second only to China. Australian economist Steve Keen writes for Forbes that the same financial mishaps that were the cause of the Global Financial Crisis…