The End of Credit Suisse!
Source: YouTube · Patrick Boyle · published Mar 22, 2023 · 22:52
Credit Suisse's emergency sale to UBS marks the most dramatic moment in global banking since the 2008 financial crisis 0:00-0:06, creating a banking giant with assets twice the size of the Swiss economy.
Key Takeaways:
• Swiss regulators secretly ordered Credit Suisse's merger with UBS while assuring the public the bank was stable 2:00-2:47
• The $3.2 billion all-stock deal included a controversial write-off of $17.3 billion in AT1 bonds, leaving bondholders worse than shareholders 1:00-1:16
• Swiss government passed emergency legislation to strip shareholders of voting rights and guarantee up to $10 billion in potential losses 8:24-8:30
• The AT1 bond wipeout contradicts typical bank resolution hierarchy and has sent shockwaves through the $260 billion AT1 market 19:47-20:31
The rushed "shotgun wedding" creates a near-monopoly in Swiss banking while testing new post-financial crisis resolution frameworks designed to protect taxpayers from bailouts.
Sources:
- 0:00-0:06 Introduction to Credit Suisse's emergency sale
- 1:00-1:16 AT1 bond write-off details
- 2:00-2:47 Secret merger planning by regulators
- 8:24-8:30 Emergency legislation and government guarantees
- 19:47-20:31 Market reaction to AT1 bond treatment
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Over the weekend we saw the sale of Credit
Suisse to UBS in probably the most dramatic moment in global banking since the financial
crisis of 2007-2008. As I discussed in my most recent video, Credit
Suisse has been the problem child of European banking for quite some time now, plagued by
scandals, losses, management shake-ups and restructuring plans. They have been involved in every scandal of
the last decade, always managing to lose money. The bank was sold for $3.2 billion dollars
in an all-stock deal meaning that shareholders were paid in shares of UBS rather than in
cash. This represents a huge discount to the firm’s
prior market value. The Swiss government additionally guaranteed
just under 10 billion dollars of the joint entity’s losses that it may suffer on certain
portfolios of as…