The League Table Of Shame
We've taken the total of writedowns / credit losses sustained by firms since the credit crunch commenced 12 months ago, and divided it by the number of staff we estimate were on the books at that time.
Here are the results:
1. IKB - $14.73bn writedowns / credit losses, 1,839 employees, $8,009,788 per employee
2. Merrill Lynch - $46.8bn, 65,000, $720,000
3. Bayerische Landesbank - $6.75bn, 10,080, $669,642
4. WestLB - $3.1bn, 6,147, $504,311
5. UBS - $44.2bn, 87,000, $508,045
6. Morgan Stanley - $11.7bn, 46,390, $252,209
7. Lehman Brothers - $7.03bn, 30,000, $243,333
8. Dresdner Bank - $5.0bn, 25,622, $195,144
9. LBBW - $1.7bn, 10,000, $170,000
10. Credit Suisse - $8.13bn, 49,000, $165,918
11. CIBC - $6.3bn, 38,200, $164,921
12. Goldman Sachs - $4.9bn, 30,000, $163,333
13 Citi - $57.5bn - 374,000, $153,743
14. AIG - $16.77bn - 116,000, $145,568
15. Deutsche Bank - $11.4bn, 80,253, $142,050
16. Nomura Holdings - $2.46bn, 18,026, $136,469
17. Mizuho Financial Group - $6.24bn, 48,758, $127,978
18. Wachovia - $11.58bn, 119,952, $96,538
19. Natixis - $2.0bn, 21,959, $91,078
20. Credit Agricole - $6.9bn (awaiting Q2 figures), 86,866, $79,432
21. Bank of America - $15.31bn, 209,000, $73,253
22. Royal Bank of Scotland - $16.5bn, 233,600, $70,634
23. Barclays Bank - $9.2bn, 146,600, $67,755
24. HSBC - $18.7bn, 320,000, $58,437
25. Fortis - $3.1bn, 62,524, $49,580
26. JPMorgan Chase / Bear Stearns - $8.7bn, 193,000, $45,077
27. Societe Generale - $6.4bn, 153,855, $41,597
28. Commerzbank - $1.24bn, 41,622, $29,791
29. Royal Bank of Canada - $1.5bn, 67,200, $22,231
30. Sumitomo - $1.19bn, 65,494, $18,170
31. BNP Paribas - $2.7bn, 162,687, $16,596
32. UniCredit - $2.7bn, 177,571, $15,205
33. Mitsubishi UFJ - $1.19bn, 78,300, $15,197
Data Sources - Here is The City, Reuters
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