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Swiss Banks Credit Suisse and UBS Face Liquidity and Crypto Challenges Amid Financial Crisis.

Originally Published 2 years ago — by Reuters

Sight deposits held by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) increased to 567 billion Swiss francs ($619 billion) from 515 billion francs a week earlier, indicating that both Credit Suisse and UBS may have used some of the 200 billion francs in extra liquidity offered by the SNB as part of a state-sponsored rescue of Credit Suisse. UBS agreed to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs in stock in a merger engineered to avoid more market-shaking turmoil in global banking.

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Banks scramble for Fed liquidity after SVB collapse.

Originally Published 2 years ago — by Reuters

Banks sought record amounts of emergency liquidity from the Federal Reserve in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, taking an all-time high $152.9 billion from the Fed's traditional lender-of-last resort facility known as the discount window as of Wednesday, while also taking $11.9 billion in loans from the Fed's newly created Bank Term Lending Program. The central bank's total balance sheet mushroomed by roughly $300 billion in the last week, reversing a substantial portion of the balance sheet reduction accomplished since last summer. The Fed's bank lending facility was launched on Sunday amid highly unsettled markets, rattled by the failure of regional financial firm Silicon Valley Bank on Friday and then Signature over the weekend.

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