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Risk-weighting – how to fake up resilience in a banking system

— blog published on 6th April 2023 and the underlying article by IREF Europe on 5th April 2023 —

Introduction

How resilient is the global banking system? Are banks’ capital buffers now much larger than they were going into the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8, as authorities claim?

The buffers – called ‘Common Equity Tier 1’ (or CET1), […]

HSBC rescue of Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm DID have taxpayer support

SVB’s obituary

Published on 23rd March 2023

I have sent a paper to the Treasury Select Committee proving how the rescue of SVB UK by HSBC had taxpayer support.

You can DOWNLOAD THE PAPER HERE.The Governor of the Bank of England (Andrew Bailey) and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Andrew Griffith) are appearing before them on March […]