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Jefferies Investment Bank: Responding with Transparency, (A) and (B)
Baumann, J, Canner, J., and O’Rourke, J. S. (Editor)
February 15, 2018
SKU:
BUS-004122 Region:
North America
Topic:
Strategy & General Management, Accounting & Finance
Length:
15 pages
Keywords:
investment bank, rating agencies, downgrading, stock, market effects
Copyrighted by:
Notre Dame
Student Price:
$4.00 (€3.72)
Average rating:
0
Jefferies & Company, the most rapidly growing medium-sized investment bank, quickly became the focus of many ratings agencies upon the collapse of MF Global. While many of the ratings agencies found no need for concern, Egan-Jones concluded the contrary. The little known rating agency published a report downgrading Jefferies’s outlook, sending Jefferies’s stock plummeting downward with no end in sight.
Learning Outcomes:
- Restore value to Jefferies’s shareholders through instilling confidence in the marketplace.
- Use the existing crisis as a platform to communicate company values, increasing brand equity in the marketplace.
- Maintain existing and continue to originate new client relationships in light of the recent crisis.
- Gain an understanding from the current crisis, allowing senior management to develop a strategy to limit the impact of similar issues in the future.