D:: [[2023]]
# Events
* [[Silicon Valley Bank]] and [[First Republic Bank]] have seen regulator action
* [[Credit Suisse]] taken over by [[UBS]] due to action by Swiss authorities
# Explorations
## Are larger banks at risk of what happened to Silicon Valley Bank?
[Source](https://youtu.be/ZPlrkr1qaE0)
- The short answer is **no**
- Liquidity Coverage for other larger banks is healthy
- Losses on Held-to-Maturity securities (which can be hidden because they are recorded in the balance sheet at amortized cost) are pretty large for these banks, but:
- they do not exceed Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1)
- they are hedged by a large amount of interest rate swaps
- Silicon Valley Bank had [no chief risk officer](https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-chief-risk-officer/) for 8 months and that reflected in the fact that they didn't really have anything to hedge the risk of rising interest rate swaps on their held-to-maturity portfolio
- It seems to be a trend that when tech meets finance, the result is quite messy. Are many fintech firms just [[regulatory arbitrage]]?