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From Liquidity To A Credit Crisis

The Macro Trading Floor

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Is the ECB Going to Hike 50 Basis Points?

Banks in Europe had a very hard time passing netting negative interest rates to depositors, which means they were simply bleeding margins. So how do you solve that? And you move out to the risk curve. I mean, what are you supposed to do otherwise? You buy more risky products on the asset side. But look, basically, there was no alternative. European banks, but also US small banks loaded up on these risks because rates were negative for a while. That's not to excuse them. It's easy to say now with hindsight, well, there was too much risk being taken in the banking sector on these products. This is not the banking stress we're talking about now

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