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Bankia Parent Revises 2011 "Profit" Of €41 Million to €3.3 Billion Loss
It is rather amazing what one finds when a company which previously had allegedly posted a profit of €41 million, somehow becomes insolvent, needs a nationalization to avoid a full out liquidation, and gets bailed out by the state. One of the first things one finds is that the profit pitched to that particular class of gullible idiots, known as shareholders, was an outright lie. And yes, on that one very rare occasion when an auditor refuses to sign off on a bank's financials, in this case Deloitte, run far, and run fast. Instead what one finds is a massive loss. From Reuters: "BFA, the parent group of nationalized Spanish bank Bankia said on Monday it had restated its 2011 results to reflect a 3.3 billion euro loss, rather than a 41 million euro profit, following a bailout from the state. In a statement to the stock exchange regulator, BFA said the restated loss reflected a review of its loan portfolios and capital needs after a new audit and as part of the clean-up plan implemented by the government." Well, duh, something "new" better be reflected, or else the general public may just get the impression that banks are merely pulling numbers out of their glutes, that the entire balance sheet, income and cash flow statements are just a jumble of utter BS, and that keeping one's deposits in a system predicated on lies and fraud may not be the smartest thing. But no: that would imply one is inciting a bank run, and that is frowned upon by the very same government which does everything in its power to facilitate just the data manipulation that magically results in a profitable bank being on the verge of liquidation.
But that's not all. According to Spain's Expansion, the total loss could be far worse, more than double the just reported, to a total of €7 billion. Google translated:
Following a meeting of more than four hours, the board of directors of the entity on Monday approved the restated financial statements. Bankia matrix provided only consolidated data for the year 2011, yielding a loss of 3.318 million euros. However, individual losses would amount to 7,000 million BFA, according to financial sources.
The consolidated balance sheet losses gave the fruit of Bankia own numbers, which on Friday announced that it obtained a negative result of 2.979 million in 2011. In previous accounts, unaudited, BFA had lost 439 million in individual accounts, while recognized in consolidated profit of 41 million.
The red numbers are mainly due to the development of fair value of the share itself has BFA Bankia (52% in December 2011).
Indicatively, the move from a profit to a €7 billion loss, in a US context, is roughly the same as if US bank holding company X were to go from being profitable to posting a nearly $100 billion loss. Overnight. But only after the FDIC was invited to backstop the firm's suddenly underwater hundreds of billions in deposits.
Oops.
Luckily, there is always only one cockroach (ahem JP Morgan prop desk), and we are absolutely confident the €7 billion total loss, when officially announced will be the final one. Just as the final bailout bill of €19 billion will not be topped. Or was that €25 billion?
And nobody will need a European bailout. Ever.
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Enron accounting as its best
This should be a big deal, but i'm so desensitized. Won't the crash just come soon?
Another day, another bankster accounting fraud. Nothing to see here, move along.
Glutes FTW!! I luv this site! :>D
Amazing. These numbers are kind of unreal at this point, no? I remember talking about the Panana Canal redo project with a friend from Europe and said to him, "Oh, it's only US$ 5 billion?"
And he said, "um... that's 5 billion."
me: "yeah, one aircraft carrier, or a few stealth bombers. whatevs."
Accounting firm for bank: " WHOOPS "
Bank spokesperson: " Just a rounding error, sorry. "
Bank customer: " I would like to withdraw all my funds, please. "
Government:" Sorry, there's a 1000 Euro limit on withdraws. "
Advice; Get your money out of banks now, buy PMs, before it's too late.
The answer is no. Not soon
Every entity in power is maneuvering and inventing complexity designed to buy time. That many people all focused on that one thing will indeed buy time.
There are no plans for solution. The only plans are to buy time.
The end will come suddenly in a way that provides the time buyers an excuse that if such and such had only not happened, they would have had time to fix things.
<< There are no plans for solution. The only plans are to buy time. >>
Brilliant choice of words. I hope I can remember them.
It'll all be solved when the banksters all buy their farms in New Zealand and have a stash of PM's in the basement. The solution will be that there will no longer be anyone left who cares to pretend.
And they promise to never ever do it again!
Problems have solutions. What we have here is a predicament.
Not sure if I'm desensitised or just amused at this point. I mean, if a large financial company full of financial professionals can't tell the difference between a reasonable profit and a serious loss, how bad are things in the non-financial companies not full of financial professionals? Hmm, perhaps not so bad at all.
Oh I used to be disgusted
And now I try to be amused.
But since their wings have got rusted,
You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
But when they told me 'bout their side of the bargain,
That's when I knew that I could not refuse.
And I won't get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Oh-oh.
I was watching while you're dancing away.
Our love got fractured in the echo and sway.
How come everybody wants to be your
the couch giveth, the couch taketh away
Wishes are horses but the banksters ride. And ride on. And on..
Got any weed?
And now it sounds like Greece is FINALLY going to leave the EURO?!
http://silverliberationarmy.blogspot.ca/
If the Greeks are soo good at cheating, why can't TPTB in Greece just stuff the ballot box for the pro-bailout parties and declare victory?
Greece Pours $22.6 Billion Into Four Biggest Bankshttp://www.cnbc.com/id/47591006
and Switzerland prepares for an Euro Crash. German news : http://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Schweiz-beugt-Euro-Crash-vor-article637054...
Futures are up...rally on! It's all Bullshit!
OT: 1st Zombie of the Apocalypse has been identified:
http://www.local10.com/news/Source-Face-eating-man-shot-by-police-identified/-/1717324/14244018/-/qt3p3kz/-/index.html
good call, but a few hours behind the times:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/start-zombie-apocalypse-caught-tape
Not behind the times at all--this is new (tonite) and identifies the guy who was eating face, (and gives quite a bit of background on him) You would have seen this if you had opened the link.
Well now...this should certainly ramp futures. Bullish!
Soon, very soon we will see an Enron event.
Rule 1: when the shit hits the fan, write off anything and everything that smells or is going to smell soon.
SOP
Off topic, Russell Napier is detailing how to currency crisis would come in the US.
http://www.ft.com/home/us
Check out "Ubber-bear see value in Europe", he discusses how the Treasuries market would freeze.
So either default or monetizing to the roof.
Best,
Geoffrey.
There's an old golfing joke that goes like this. Two guys finish a par three and one guy reports his score as a 4. The other guys says, "4?? You took 3 shots in the sand trap alone!" The first guys then says, "Oh, yah. Give me an 11."
How is this Bankia report any diffrent than the golfing joke?
Shouldn't we at least start to smile or maybe snicker at financial reports right off the bat instead of waiting for the punch line?
And when spanish debt blows out even more the EuroPeoples will be on the hook sicne they retardedly accepted bonds as collateral for eurocash to bail out bankia. This level of ponzi-dom is mind blowing.
Don't forget the FED
They got All Fucking Sorts of European Horse Shit Collateral with the Swap Lines, etc.
Serious but niave question, would it be possible for the Fed to de-hypocate that collateral and divide it up bewteen the european owers of the Fed. Essetially buying back its shares with/to the eurotrash on its balance sheet?
Then the fed can reboot itself?
umm its on the US books now, socialized, why in god's name would they move it? Unless they purchased something EVEN more toxic with it.
LOL!
I was thinking it could be a placation move. The US sheeple are waking up. Having the fed is one thing, but when people find out its biggest shareholders are foriegn banks/families they might get even more woke up and on the wrong side of the bed. I am not being sarcastic here. probably naive, but not sarcastic.
o m g.
what percentage are "waking up"?
what percentage are willing to take action?
what action?
lol.
game over.
Herding Cats.
Follow Ron Paul? OMG, another puppet!
Follow the Constitution? OMG, its a Bill for DEBT.
see the line after lol.
I think it the % is over 20% and growing. the MSM is losing eyeballs in the millions. People are looking for answers to why the economy machine is not working anymore. The us system with Ben running the printing press and timmay runing the tax code is messed up enough. Dimon being on his own oversight board at the fed has people scratching their heads. Finding out that both the fed and the IMF are predominantly funded by US IRS, and are owned by foriegn interests might get them to stop watching DWTS and MMA long enough to send their congres person an email.
If I was Ben. I'd do it. He'd be a national hero.
The reason why the MSM is losing eyeballs in the millions is because they adamantly refused to properly vet Barack Obama before the election in 2008 and thus saddled us with the worst president in American history. They know he is destroying the country, but they continue to protect his ineptness. The reason? Can't say anything derogatory against the first black president. It is political correctness (PC) taken to blatant and ruinous extremes.
It will destroy them... and the sooner the better!
Obama? He's self destructing very nicely on his own.
No.
The collateral is held against the swaps, not against the equity position of its shareholders.
Two entirely different premises.
And in nay case were they one and the same, it would either simply be a repayment of the swap line in exchange for the collateral or a collateral subsitution.
Thanks. I thought I'd give it a try. I mean if Legarde is going to use IMF funds on the old continent, why not let the Euroes take care of themselves with their own central bank. (Excuse for TPTB being "we can't help our own because all out capitol is tied up in the US FED")
JPM with its interest rate swaps should get even more interesting...Can you say "infinite losses" ???
debts-tbt-bail out?
Oh! At the last second 100% of these assets was "Sold to US" thus saving certain banking system failure!
Zounds! What foreward thinking action by the Plunge Team!
What next for the crew of the Minnow?
Which means all lucky American taxpayers are by default shareholders in this clusterfuck.
We got Facebook
And you got Bankia
We been analed and
You be Wankeas
Let's call the whole thing off
California Uber Alles!
Nice one! California above all (with debt and Jello Biafra).... unless you got it from "the social network" then -1
Was Houdini a banker?
He was the senior banker at Goldilocks who came upon the sure fire deal of doubling your money by folding it in half.
JPMX
Once the Gov announces "bailout" the sky's the limit. The more the merrier.
No biggie, they left the 3 billion in their other pants. Happens to me all the time.
Tyler, we all know this is the case for all G-7 banks since 2009 when they suspended reality and we have all been prisoners of the Bernanke Hallucination Chamber ever since... May we be able to escape one day...
The Matrix?
Can you escape?
To answwer a question with a question, I don't know; "Can you escape?"
Death is the only escape. Or maybe Club Med...Medicated, that is...
"Yes You Can..."
Vanuatu real estate for sale. Hi-speed broadband. Full cellular coverage. Power and water. Anonymous banking. No taxes.
http://www.ck.com.vu/listings/ressale/p/140
(I did, you can too, not that hard)
Accountants?!
We don't need no stinkin accountants!
Is that pre-fit vs. PROfit?
Forgot to carry the 1.
Revise , rinse , repeat . The new three R's .
This summer is building up to a big implosion. Germany demanding its gold be delivered will be the icing on the cake
Get gold while you can, comex leverage at 40 to 1 ain't going to cut it when the gig is up, and its about up...
My money is in July this whole thing topples. Maybe around the 4th?
Our banks are so far ahead of Spain's. WaMu, FanFred etc pulled this stunt in '07-08.
No shyster banksters ever go to jail or drowns in bathtubs. Only peak oil "nuts".
Peak oilers drown in hot tubs. Drowning in bathtubs went out with the 70's...
If you are trying to imply some kind of conspiracy in Matt Simmons death you are a nut case, and you do his memory no service by doing so. I worked for Matt from 97-03. I knew him well. He was part of Bush's energy advisory panel, not a peak oil nutbag. He simply believed we were out of CHEAP (ie $20 Saudi crude) oil.
Btw even back then MRS had blood pressure and weight issues. And he loved wine and cigars. Once a Secratary told him it was illegal to smoke in an office if you had more then 100 employees, and his resoonse was that if people had a problem with it he could always find a way to get to 99 employees. So wine, cugar, high blood pressure and weight problems dont go well with hot tubs at 65+. Hell I have to get out of a hot tub after 10 min at 37.
I am a nut case (just ask my wife), but no, I do not believe Simmons was suicided...
Well! Based upon an anonymous post my complete trust in our rulers has been fully restored
Thank you!
Bankia, MF Global, Enron, same damn same nobody knows where the dough went. No one is responsible. Iceland to the power of 10. Biggun scams coming home to roost.
We never miss a chance... we get up and dance and do the Curly shuffle!
Accounting Fraud. They hired some consultants from Lehman Brothers.
Liquidity is the optiate......Debt destruction is the medicine.
The space between the optiate and the medicine will determine what states survive and what states end up in some sort of "failed state" limbo.
Debt repudiation is the the only viable solution. The pain should be born by unsecured and in some cases secured debt holders. The longer the EU makes taxpayers back-stop banks and by extension sovereigns, the more likely that "failed state" limbo is accompained by social unrest.
Debt jubilee has always been the answer, not monetization.
Sacrificing the future for the present leaves no future for anyone while at the same time diminishing present wages/earnings/labor.
Yes this is such shit...a mea culpa oh sorry for misstating our numbers..here are the real numbers
Please don't ask for disgorgement of ill gotten gains from officers and insiders and large institutional holders who were able to trade out their positions based on such bullshit numbers...
Nortel in Canada was notorious for this.....
I would be interested in looking at insider stock sales over the last six months
"3.3 billion euro loss, rather than a 41 million euro profit"
Minor book keeping error. So sorry. Move along, nothing to see here...
The fraud and corruption on both continents is absolutely sickening...
Fraudian Slip.
HAHAHA BANKIA" "The Spanish newspaper, El Mundo fanned the fear by claiming that a further €30bn was required to rescue four other banks, CatalunyaCaixa, Novagalicia, Banco de Valencia."
www.rybinski.eu
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9296111/Mariano-Rajoy...
Derivatives instruments will always be the tools of criminals. There is no way to allow their use and prevent their abuse. They must be banned like any other tax evasion or accounting scheme.
How long before the same revelation is made about the "highly rated collateral" in Bernanke's closet, which supposedly is shipping profits to Geithner's treasury every quarter on behalf of the tax payers, and said collateral is found to be the worthless "residue" on Ben's books?
Loc'ed after dark.
The Spanish left two things wherever they went - religion & corruption. Anyone expecting the best here is de lu sion al. Geddit?
Don't forget - it's three things - religion, corruption, and ruthless efficiency.
No - sorry, four things: religion, corruption, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical dedication to the Pope.
OT: kyle bass might being getting paid soon, Bloomberg just flashed Japanese jobless rate higher than expected.
Has the ECB impliedly pledged its full faith and credit behind every bank that is capitalized by the Euro? Can the ECB just cut and run when it has offered up so much at this point? How will the ECB explain the losses to Greek bank depositors from other Euro nations? I suggest we are looking at new legal obligations that were not previously considered. In the US everyone knows the limit of FDIC insurance and is forewarned that deposits in excess of such are subject to losses; Euro area banks have no such limitation. If I am a Euro depositor I'd be looking to the ECB to recover my loss of deposit.
The result will be the same as we just had in the US with the mortgage fraud. The banksters will just pay a small fine to the various governments and get a "get out of jail free card" for all of these sins.
Either way, 2012 will be the last year in the "system as usual" mode for world markets. October suprise?
When confidence wanes to the point that someone yelling bank run can cause a collapse of course the yeller is the evul one, not the governments and bankers who caused the loss of confidence.
Somehow, a bank run might even be bullish.
A bank run back stopped by the ECB is the only way Greeks are going to get new fiat into the country. The citizens of Greece are forcing the hand of the ECB.
So far it is working. The greek people are ending up with the cash in the mattress and germany is holding even more IOUs from Target 2
I wish gas would last longer than 1 year, that is what I think will become very valuable. I can see a 5 gal. can of gas going for $200 when the SHTF, whereas I think gold/silver are going to decrease.
It isn't just the banks. It is nearl every public traded corporation. You're dreaming if you think anyone sells half what they claim.
Take away future booking of profit, inventory counted as an asset, and bring back some form of mark to market. In an instant billion dollar profits become billion dollar losses.
Just like how welfare causes overbreedin in the ghetto. Current accounting practices cause overproduction. America actually doesn't overconsume. At least 50% of all the product produced doesn't ever make it to the hands of a consumer. It is created to pump stock valuations, not to actually sell. Take away the incentive to juice a stock so insiders can sell, and half the inventory disappears.
Trying to suck in the Germans. We are close to having everything solved, we just need x billion euros more. 6 months later, we are close to having everything solved, we just need xx billion euros more. 6 months later, we are close to having everything solved, we just need xxx billion euros more. 6 months later.......
(notice I didn't use rinse and repeat because I know there are members that are sick of that phrase but....)
Those stupid greeks seem pretty smart to me
for (i = 1; ; i++)
{
printf( "We just need %f billion Euroz more...\n", amt );
amt *= 10.0;
sleep( 15552000 ); // # of seconds in 6 months (avg)
}
Fat finger?
And to think that banks where once places where you wanted to keep your money. What interesting times these are indeed.
What faux accounting?! The best part is so many don't realize this is rampant at so many banks world wide.
Spot on!
Mark-to-market when bullshit asset valuations are being assed by valuers in the worldwide banking-accounting-insurance scam, the forgeddaboutit when the valuations crash back to normal. No where's my bonus?
I think the real scary thing is that these losses don't include mark-to-market accounting losses. These banks have negative infinity of positive assets.
"Indicatively, the move from a profit to a €7 billion loss, in a US context, is roughly the same as if US bank holding company X were to go from being profitable to posting a nearly $100 billion loss."
I don't get the math here. Can someone explain why this isn't just a straight currency translation?
That is when compared as a proportion of GDP
Spanish GDP is so much smaller than USA GDP
A seven billion dollar hit to their banking system is the same as a hundred billion dollar hit to ours.
And that was just one bank. But remember there is never more than one cockroach lol
Of course the Spanish bailout mechanism doesn't even have the funds to bail out Bankia. They only have about 4.4 billion euros left BEFORE Bankia's bailout.
To put some of these numbers in perspective for Spain, they're science budget is only around 5 or so billion euros a year.
Will they dare to go to the markets to make up the difference? Nope they'll use gov't bonds instead.
Glass-Steagall
HAHAHAHA
We were making a profit, up till we found out our losses would be covered.....
And people wonder why bankers are hated?
What's a few Billion EUROs between friends?
Once RISK was transferred out of the financial system to the taxpayers, we stomped on the gas pedal and pointed the bus to the cliff.
Jaime just made another announcement, "upon further review we determined that rather then a growing multi-billion dollar loss, we've come full circle and are presently 41 million in the black."
Why not? Sounds like a believable number to me
Bonuses are based on anticipated revenue. It's all good.
Just like the accounting at fannie and freddie when the DNC was busting those two corporation out and robbing the shareholders. When shareholders were shocked by the losses at fannie the CFO revised the numbers to show a record profit.
this is an old trick we usta use selling salve from door-to-door to shelter current income, er, candy purchases, so our moms would kick down
this is now 22Bil EUR needed from mom?
...and...action!
I saw almost the exact same thing happen in a scene from this movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSXbgfKFWg
Toilet and Douche ... uhh i mean Deloitte and Touche caught cookin the books again? yeah, would have NEVER guessed that
You misread. They refused to sign off on the books, because they were cooked.
We have a 41 billion euro profit...errr...I mean a 3 billion euro loss....actually, it was a 41 billion euro profit until we factored in the losses...those numbers really ripped out the profits, to say the least...we should just admit, we basically suck at this...please shoot us now.
it's Turbo Taxes fault, it didn't highlight in red the part where you sort out the brackets and the decimal places and the zeroes.
Makes me wonder what JPM's and BAC's books really look like. I don't think this is just "a Spanish problem." Although it'll be spun that way.
OT-anyone in Europe ,please give me good site for on-line buy of "barbaric"stuff.Danke shoine in advance.
This is kinda like when a tsunami starts and the water at the beach recedes! 2 minutes later.....
If I was at the beach in Thailand on Dec 24th I would have had no idea what was happening. I swear I learned nothing in my 20 years of schooling.
Europeans are playing Olympic Whack-a-Mole. Just when it looked like the Mea Culpa Coalition (okay, Latin, not Greek) was taking the lead in the Greek polls, which would somehow save (sic) the euro and EU, Spain pops up with yet more sovereign debt and a larger hole in its banking system. And Italy is waiting in the wings, just in case the sun also rises in Spain. Record euro shorts? Didn’t Pets.com and Lehman have record shorts at the end, too?
This would be great material for Dilbert.
Loan sharks knew that if they took the dollars printing machines under their control they could suffocate the world ...they could initially suffocate USA and after taking the USA from the Americans, they could move and suffocate the whole world and take the countries from their people.
FED printed cheap money and loansharking multiplied this money in an unnatural way within the American economy boarders and they discarded them abroad so that they did not threaten USA. USA became the first state in the world with artificial “breathing”...
It cannot be possible but just in the USA for only the last year, more than one million houses were seized. It cannot be impossible but the New World has returned to tents and shelters ..has returned to the ages of Columbus. It cannot be possible that we allow to a few loan sharks looting the toils and the assets of people...
http://eamb-ydrohoos.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-debt-crisis.html
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Global Debt Crisis
The European Debt Redemption (ERF) Fund in a Nutshell New
http://www.cnhedge.com/thread-5552-1-1.html
The European Debt Redemption (ERF) Fund in a Nutshell New
http://www.cnhedge.com/thread-5552-1-1.html
IT IS scandalous that the bank should pull this skeleton out of the cupboard precisley when it declared a profit; it is even more scandalous that one of its top managers gets severance package of 13.8 million Euros for doing his "good" work in this huge crap house. Imagine a small guy gets the boot and no severance pay for professional fault of minor nature, wheras the boss man gets a golden handshake. There wont be enuff lamposts in the country...
thats the hardest part holmes......the compensation for running a PUBLIC company into the ground.....
THEY WOULD NEVER PULL THIS SHIT IF IT WERE THEIR OWN COMPANY......NO WAY NO HOW.....
They only try to kill themselves when it's not their lives at stake!
get it?
No I don't, Dick Fuld would prove you wrong like all the others! You seem to be one eyed Jack if you think greed doesn't kill the private banksta plutocrats! Its greed that is now a culture of banksta cabal, the public ones playing copy cat to their bigger private sector brothers of SCAM! Greed kills all sense of proportion.
Pull whatever bullshit numbers you want out of your hat. Funny how companies ALWAYS beat by 1 penny.... "it's a put on....a put on...." fucking joke.