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

Mergers and Inquisitions

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. By contrast, Credit Suisse barely had any HTM securities.

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