General Electric sieht sich in einer ähnlichen Situation wie Goldman Sachs und Morgan Stanley und fordert nun auch einen Direktzugang zu den Geldquellen der FED. Um dies zu ereichen, soll der Industriekonzern als "Bank" betrachtet werden. Der Konzern will sich rechtlich in eine Bank umwandeln.
Dem Vernehmen nach muss GE in den nächsten Monaten 500 Milliarden Dollar refinanzieren. Das dürfte ohne FED Hilfe schwierig werden, so ein Beobachter.
Reuters:
As General Electric faced a recent credit crunch, the U.S. conglomerate considered seeking a bank charter that would give it access to government lending channels, sources familiar with the company's thinking said on Friday.
Earlier this month, GE raised roughly $15 billion in a capital boost that the company said was meant to preserve its financial flexibility.
As the company contemplated the global credit crunch, it mulled becoming a bank holding company in order to access borrowing from the Federal Reserve, said the sources familiar with the company's thinking.
"If Goldman and Morgan Stanley became bank holding companies, certainly you'd expect us to at least evaluate what would that mean for us as a backup alternative to whatever we're doing," Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, told Reuters on Friday in a phone interview.
