All banks of commerce of the USA in aggregate relate derivatives to usual bank assets 9:1. It very much and very unusual parity if to take into consideration that bank assets, as a rule, are not money of shareholders, and represent various kinds of deposits which have been entrusted bank by investors. The proportion size seems to stranger in branch which is proud of “conservatism”. The proportion 9:1 concerning size of derivatives to assets is more characteristic for hedge funds, than for banks! At the superbank the lever reaches the enormous relation 38:1.
Even more shakes imagination size of an indicator of the relation of the created assets under items on derivatives at bank JPMorganChase to share capital size. Within the last 10 quarters in the financial reports which are stored on a file of Securities and Exchange Commission of the USA, the bank informed that on balance it has $42.7 billion means of shareholders – holders of ordinary shares.
The sum almost in $43 billion are big money, here jokes are inappropriate. But if to compare them with monstrous volume of items on derivatives in $30,434 billion it becomes clear that the company uses simply monstrous lever concerning money of shareholders. On each dollar belonging to a shareholder the bank has constructed a pyramid in $712 on extremely brave and is extreme volatility of the market! A proportion is 712:1. Well and well! The Founding father of one of banks-parents John Perpont Morgan (1837-1913) who was the conservative financier and the industrialist, likely, turns over in a coffin from indignation. In financial circles the credit shoulder 10:1 is considered extremely aggressive. 100:1 people with psychology of the kamikaze can apply a credit shoulder only.
For all financial history of America only once the lever of large-scale operations exceeded size 100:1 – in the hedge superfund LTCM which end was terrible. Managers of bank JPMorganChase have created, likely, the bravest hedge fund in a world history, using $42 billion share capital for the control of derivatives under which are over $30 bln. base assets. It is remarkable that the shoulder 712:1 uses the first among banks of Wall Street, a member of elite group of blue chips of the Dow Jones index!
It is curious to analyze, as the portfolio of derivatives of the most important speculator of the urgent market is formed. The basic contribution is given by percentage derivatives. Parents of superbank, Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan, have informed that at them of 86.2 % and 86.9 %, accordingly, from all terminal contracts constitute bargains with percentage derivatives. As a result the volume of assets of the monstrous child reaches tremendous size in $20.7 bln.!
The share of others derivatives is on currency, the goods and gold – in a bank portfolio is insignificant, but on absolute value they constitute huge size. (On actions JPMorganChase in the market of gold the journal prepares the separate publication – Red.). Proceeding only from percentage derivatives, the bank used the lever concerning joint-stock money 484:1. Whether shareholders know about it?
In percentage derivatives the sum of base assets means a debt receivable. For example, the debtor about $1 million debt and with variable percentage payments can conclude the agreement with bank JPMorganChase to insure the percentage payments by fixed rates of interest instead of variables. Having the schedule of payments with fixed percentages, the company-debtor will not worry about fluctuations of the market of interest rates as its partner-counterpart, JPMorganChase, takes this risk on itself for any commission. Though there is an exchange in sizes of interest rates for this small sum of $1 million, the real size of cash will constitute at most some tens thousand dollars. However this example gives a real picture of actions of bank in the market of derivatives.
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