{"id":7614,"date":"2013-04-29T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2013-04-29T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T18:27:08","slug":"deutsche-bank-plans-capital-boost-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/29\/deutsche-bank-plans-capital-boost-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Bank Plans Capital Boost | WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A welcome development reported by LAURA STEVENS , DAVID ENRICH and ULRIKE DAUER at the Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FRANKFURT\u2013Deutsche Bank AG [DBK.XE] said Monday it will raise \u20ac2.8 billion ($3.65 billion) in fresh capital in a dramatic about-face for the bank, which has repeatedly said it won&#8217;t turn to shareholders for help boosting its capital cushion.<\/p>\n<p>The bank, Europe&#8217;s second-largest by assets, has long faced doubts from investors and analysts about whether it has enough capital to absorb potential future losses and to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Deutsche Bank has long been considered thinly capitalized but have always countered with the argument that the leverage is justified by the quality of the assets on their balance sheet. Low risk-weightings provided a false sense of security, with Greek and other PIIGS government bonds rated as zero-risk in the past, encouraging banks to leverage up on precisely the wrong kind of assets. It is time for risk weightings to be removed from bank capital ratios. The <a href=\"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/2013\/04\/28\/two-senators-try-to-slam-the-door-on-bank-bailouts-nytimes-com\/\" title=\"Two Senators Try to Slam the Door on Bank Bailouts \u2013 NYTimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan bill sponsored by US senators Sherrod Brown and David Vitter<\/a> is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323528404578452892111767284.html?mod=djemalertMARKET\">Deutsche Bank Plans Capital Boost &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A welcome development reported by LAURA STEVENS , DAVID ENRICH and ULRIKE DAUER at the Wall Street Journal: FRANKFURT\u2013Deutsche Bank AG [DBK.XE] said Monday it will raise \u20ac2.8 billion ($3.65 billion) in fresh capital in a dramatic about-face for the bank, which has repeatedly said it won&#8217;t turn to shareholders for help boosting its capital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/29\/deutsche-bank-plans-capital-boost-wsj-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deutsche Bank Plans Capital Boost | WSJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[348,946,1013,2973,3111],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fed-banks-interest-rates","category-uk-europe-countries-regions","tag-bank-capital-ratios","tag-david-vitter","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-risk-weighted-assets","tag-sherrod-brown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deutsche Bank Plans Capital Boost | WSJ.com - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deutsche Bank Plans Capital Boost | WSJ.com - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A welcome development reported by LAURA STEVENS , DAVID ENRICH and ULRIKE DAUER at the Wall Street Journal: FRANKFURT\u2013Deutsche Bank AG [DBK.XE] said Monday it will raise \u20ac2.8 billion ($3.65 billion) in fresh capital in a dramatic about-face for the bank, which has repeatedly said it won&#8217;t turn to shareholders for help boosting its capital &hellip; 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