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James: DLJ timed the market peak, selling for $14B cash
“But we sold it for fourteen billion of cash, and two or three years later Morgan Stanley sold for eight.”
Xie: Mitsubishi UFJ wrote a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008
“So in 2008, Morgan Stanley needed an injection of capital to help prevent them from collapsing. So Mitsubishi U of J agreed to send this money, and they sent nine billion dollars, but it was a banking holiday in the US and Japan, and so they weren't actually a…”
Mitsubishi UFJ hand-delivered a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008
“Mitsubishi UFJ actually agreed to send them nine billion dollars, but since the money was needed urgently and banks were closed in the US and Japan, they actually had to write a nine billion dollar physical check and hand it in person to Morgan Stanley executi…”