Thanks Daal. Goes to prove that I shouldn't trust Yahoo finance as a quick source of financial info. Their numbers are completely out of whack.Quote from Daal:
Assuming IB's customer assets are segregated IB leverage ratio is 18x according to my calcs(stripping out all assets from customers and liabilities to customers). And thats dividing by the $500M figure which is not fair given that customers and creditors would be entitled to the 'Non-controlling interests' equity as well, counting that the ratio is 2.2x to 1. Seems pretty safe to me