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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: The Start of Great Financial Crisis 2.0?

Mergers and Inquisitions

history and the largest bank to collapse since 2008. Why bank regulations , including those passed after the 2008 financial crisis, failed to prevent this. If you’re familiar with bank accounting, valuation, and regulatory capital (i.e., It’s the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. Who deserves the blame.

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What is a Business Cycle? Expansion, Peak, Contraction, and Trough

Peak Frameworks

Recognizing the Warning Signs While it's difficult to identify a peak in real-time, certain indicators such as extreme investor optimism, high valuations relative to historical norms, and rapid increases in interest rates can serve as potential warning signs. GDP decreases, unemployment rates rise, and consumer spending slows.

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UBS and Credit Suisse: The Next Shoe to Drop in the Financial Crisis of 2023?

Mergers and Inquisitions

it’s starting to feel a lot like 2008. I explained the reasons for Silicon Valley Bank’s failure in last week’s article : incompetent risk management, massive losses on HTM securities, and a run on the bank that created the need to sell securities at a loss and get cash to cover the withdrawals. And the answer was “U.S.

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Interest Rate Swap | Examples | Uses | Swap Curve

Wall Street Mojo

Interest rate swaps are risk management tools, allowing parties to hedge against interest rate fluctuations and achieve desired cash flow structures. We look at Interest Rate Swaps in detail in this article, along with examples – Learn more about Swaps, valuation, etc. Without swap, this would nit have been possible.

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Replicating Portfolio

Wall Street Mojo

Leveraging derivatives to capture the best results at a given point in time may help portfolio managers achieve closely matching outcomes, in addition to performance monitoring, effective risk management , risk diversification , etc. Insurance companies use this tool for risk management and planning.

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What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?

Peak Frameworks

Trade Rules' Significance in Financing Decisions and Risk Management Understanding Tariffs Investment decisions, especially in sectors like manufacturing and agriculture, are often influenced by tariffs. Such disputes can significantly impact the valuation and financial planning of the companies involved.

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Unpacking the 20 most impact financial regulations from the last 20 years

The TRADE

Over the past two decades, several critical financial market regulations have been implemented globally, particularly in response to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The years following 2008’s GFC experienced continued financial regulatory reform.