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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). Equally important is the bank’s securities duration, as shown in the graph below.

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Mr. Sloan Goes To Washington

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Call it Mr. Sloan Goes to Washington. And the staffing shuffle, we think, that may be a bit of a wild card, and where speculation may loom that Sloan’s own perch may be less than secure. Call it a movie that features a less than-thrilled-to-have-top-billing star.

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Cyberattacks, Google Crash Bring Internet Security Into Question

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At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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State Regulation, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Financial Services, FinTech, Charles Clark, Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, License, Regulation, Bank of Indonesia, FinTech, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, News

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Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. The central bank is also conducting a study on issuing digital currency.

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Looking through the Pandemic, Markets Surged in the 2nd Quarter

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Absolute return, or risk management strategies, whose returns are independent of traditional stocks and bonds, continued to lower portfolio volatility. Washington Trust Bank believes that the information used in this study was obtained from reliable sources, but we do not guarantee its accuracy.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. While interest rate risk caused the most significant impact on value, several other factors contributed to the terminality of each bank that was closed.

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The Long Bull Market Comes to an End in the First Quarter

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Absolute return, or our risk management strategies, helped to reduce the decline in portfolios. Equity market neutral was down 5.2%, global macro was down 6.4%, and managed futures produced a positive 3.3% All along the curve, yields declined more than one percentage point from their already low levels.