Mizuho is investigating whether it suffered any significant losses in the Archegos Capital collapse, as it emerged that the Japanese bank had a close client relationship with the US-based family office, according to people at current of the situation.
Mizuho’s internal probe followedwarningsThis week from Nomura and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group that Japanese lenders suffered losses of $ 2 billion and $ 270 million respectively from exposure to an anonymous client.
In both cases, people familiar with the situation confirmed that the client was Archegos, a fund managed by a former hedge fund manager.Bill hwang, which was forced by default by a huge margin call last week.
Although Mizuho does not offer a full range of top-notch brokerage services, people familiar with the situation have said that the Japanese bank has provided substantial equivalent facilities to Archegos and its potential losses could be similar to those of MUFG. .
A group of banks, hungry for Archegos’ high commissions, provided the family office with more than $ 50 billion in combined leverage in volatile stocks viaswap contractsand other funding, said people with first-hand knowledge of the situation.
The managers of two of Archegos’ main brokers areinvestigatewhether Hwang deliberately misled them about the extent of the replicated positions he had built with the leverage provided by rival banks, according to people familiar with the probes. Archegos could not be reached immediately for comment.
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