Thursday, December 25, 2008

A third of G8 banks bankrupt, closed or merged in 2009?

Financial analyst Ralph Silva of TowerGroup told CNBC that he expects no less than one third of banks to fail in 2009 and that anything up to a thousand could collapse if they don’t merge.


“In 2009 we’re gonna see one third of the banks in the G8 countries disappear, either being merged, forced or not forced, or completely disappearing,” said Silva.


The analyst predicted that rather than letting banks fail, governments will force them to merge, which would lead to “very few banks owning quite a bit more.”


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