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Summary
The authorities may have averted a new global banking crisis for now by their handling of Silicon Valley Bank and the rushed shotgun marriage that handed Credit Suisse to fellow Swiss bank UBS, but there will be plenty of ramifications for the financial markets to absorb. In their latest podcast, now appearing fortnightly, Peter Seilern and Jonathan Davis discuss the causes of the bank failures and what it all means for regulators, depositors, bondholders and shareholders in an age of rising interest rates and instant communications - not to mention for Switzerland, which in Peter's view risks being seen as a "banana republic" for the way it chose to handle the Credit Suisse debacle.
01:20 - Has the banking crisis stabilised for now?
07:15 - Role of management failures
08:35 - Swiss approach to ban ...
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