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...truth is that the more capital the banks have, the safer they are and the more likely they are to be able to withstand losses or withstand the kind of loss of confidence that befell the likes of Silicon Valley...
...Basel III: if ever there were three syllables that could bring a grown banker to tears, these are they....
...US regulators cite the failure last year of midsized lenders Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic as proof that stricter capital requirements are needed....
...US banks are watching a film that their European peers will feel they have already seen: Basel III, the Endgame....
...That’s another argument that banks use to push against Basel III....
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...Silicon Valley Bank failed after accumulating a large amount of so-called unrealised losses on its bond portfolio....
...This year the industry impact of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and of other smaller lenders has more than offset any upside from higher interest rates....
...These include continued weakness in investment banking and new capital requirements under Basel III....
...The bankers contend that the new rules, known as the Basel III endgame, would sharply increase borrowing costs and hurt economic growth....
...In 2008, Alan Bennett donated his archive to the Bodleian; here we see the way in which director Nicholas Hytner collaborated with Bennett first on the play The Madness of George III and later on the film...
...So what’s happened with Silicon Valley Bank (and Silvergate) then? You’re going to laugh. To a certain extent, of course, borrowing short to lend long is what banks are for....
...The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in the US “underscores the importance of Europe continuing to make progress on banking union”, Paschal Donohoe, president of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers...
...A banking crisis was contained but Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank were washed away....
...The big fashion question heading into the coronation of King Charles III was whether or not the women — and one princess in particular — would wear a tiara. That it wasn’t a given was telling....
...Before Silicon Valley Bank failed this spring, for example, there were multiple signs that it was deeply troubled....
...The broad outlines of the changes, based on the Basel III international framework, have been knocking around for a while....
...The losses at Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic mattered only because the banks also had low margins and loads of uninsured deposits, and ran into liquidity crises....
...In March 2023, the peg dropped by 13%, in the secondary market, after Circle confirmed that about 8% of the total assets backing USDC at that time were held at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)....
...Later this summer, the Fed and other US banking regulators will publish new international standards for calculating risk-weighted assets, known as the Basel III endgame rules....
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