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Lenders bid farewell to investment bank status

China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-23 07:56

The Wall Street that shaped the financial world for two decades ended Sunday night, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley concluded there is no future in remaining investment banks now that investors have determined the model is broken.

The Federal Reserve's approval of their bid to become banks ends the ascendancy of the securities firms, 75 years after Congress separated them from deposit-taking lenders, and caps weeks of chaos that sent Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc into bankruptcy and led to the rushed sale of Merrill Lynch & Co to Bank of America Corp.

"The decision marks the end of Wall Street as we have known it," said William Isaac, a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. "It's too bad."

Lenders bid farewell to investment bank status

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