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Signature Bank's Demise: Who's Next? | Joseph Wang

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The First Republic Bank and Its Peers

The Federal Reserve imposes losses of that financial system, whether it raises rates. First republic has no interest rate hedges because they don't have a very big securities portfolio. Instead of actually lending to banks that are solvent, the new Fed facility actually does this. So we had a great financial crisis in 2008 and thereafter we had this huge change in regulatory regime where the Fed basically won’t let you borrow against your assets.

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