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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Credit Suisse, the troubled Swiss-based investment bank, received an offer from their intra-country rival Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to purchase it for around $1 billion, according to The Financial Times. Swiss regulators spearheaded the deal to help restore trust and calm in a highly volatile global banking environment over the last few weeks. The Wall Street Journal reported talks are still ongoing, and the deal may be subject to change . In the wake of the sudden closures of U.S.-based Silicon Valley Bank , Signature Bank , and Silvergate Bank , along with concerns over the financial strength of the balance sheets of hundreds of small and regional banks, UBS and Swiss regulators need to plan for several exogenous factors that could impact the acquisition. One concern is how much money the Swiss authorities will allocate for guarantees or backstops if the worldwide banking situation worsens. Both … [Read more...] about UBS Buys Beleaguered Credit Suisse To Avoid A Potential Financial Contagion: Large Layoffs Are Likely

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Credit Suisse, the troubled Swiss-based investment bank, received an offer from its intracountry rival Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to purchase it for around $1 billion, according to the Financial Times. Swiss regulators spearheaded the deal to help restore trust and calm in a highly volatile global banking environment over the last few weeks. The Wall Street Journal reported talks are still ongoing, and the deal may be subject to change . In the wake of the sudden closures of United States-based Silicon Valley Bank , Signature Bank and Silvergate Bank, along with concerns over the financial strength of the balance sheets of hundreds of small and regional banks, UBS and Swiss regulators need to plan for several exogenous factors that could impact the acquisition. One concern is how much money the Swiss authorities will allocate for guarantees or backstops if the worldwide banking situation worsens. Both … [Read more...] about UBS To Buy Beleaguered Credit Suisse To Avoid A Potential Financial Contagion—Large Layoffs Are Likely

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Here is the published version of this week’s Forbes Careers newsletter, which brings the latest news, commentary and ideas about the workplace, leadership and the future of work straight to your inbox every Wednesday. Click here to get on the newsletter list ! I t was almost dizzying last week to watch Microsoft’s team of executives introduce Copilot , its new natural language-based AI tool that will be embedded across its suite of productivity applications—the tools like Word, Teams, Outlook and Excel many office workers use every day. The advances were head-spinning. Click a button, and a Word document becomes a PowerPoint presentation. Miss a video meeting on Teams? Get an instant summary and a list of to-do items from the conversation. Have a sales meeting? Instantly prepare by asking Copilot to search across Outlook, Teams and Excel to pull together info in seconds. The effect was impressive, … [Read more...] about Microsoft’s New Copilot, Mentors For Refugees And How Sleep Can Help Your Career

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Last week we welcomed a new generation of unwilling citizens to a new banking crisis with the shocking failure of Silicon Valley Bank. It started sometime mid-last week when some clever clog heard of the impending failure of a financial transaction to raise capital for SVB to plug a big hole in its finances. The big hole was created by something known as an asset liability mismatch . SVB used a bulge of savers deposits that had accumulated over the past couple of years to purchase a lot of long-term treasury bills a few months back at a lower interest rate than todays. In an era of inflation and rising interest rates, this created a growing problem for SVB. The clever clog starting withdrawing money from SVB business accounts. This is the motive . Career bankers raise a furrowed brow to finding big holes in the finances. It gives bankers a bad name, and makes them look like they don’t know what they … [Read more...] about SVB And The New Banking Crisis: The Anatomy Of A Further Deterioration Of Capitalism In Seven Days

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Key Takeaways UBS Buying Credit Suisse Bitcoin Rally Fed Meeting Up In The Air Following a week of turmoil in the banking sector, stock indices managed to close the week in the green on Friday. For the week, the S&P 500 was up just under 1.5% while the Nasdaq Composite jolted higher by nearly 4.5%. With concerns over banks still lingering and a Fed announcement on interest rates coming on Wednesday, markets may be headed for more choppy trading. Over the weekend, UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse in a $3 billion deal. However, some of the more risky bond positions there are going to be a total loss which will cost investors a significant amount of money. Therefore, I’ll be watching the bond market closely for any after-effects. A byproduct of the banking crisis has been a flight to safety in U.S. Treasuries. That has, in turn, led to lower interest rates. After hitting a recent high water mark over … [Read more...] about Banking Stocks And The Fed