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Which opens another interesting question: How much of this reduced exposure comes from transfers from the investment portfolio to the trading portfolio of the same bank?

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 09:59:11 AM EST
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No part of it? The figures shown are summaries for private banks resp. insurers in Germany.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 10:05:23 AM EST
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The "exposures" look like "total principal value". While the market value of some greek bonds has indeed collapesed by 1/2, that's not the case for other countries. So, while you could have "halved your exposure" to Greece by changing the accounting convention from investment to trading, you can't have reduced your Spanish exposure by 1/2 other than by selling (or failing to roll over maturing) bonds.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 15th, 2011 at 10:09:28 AM EST
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