2023-07-03 21:31:11
Thank you all for being here today. It’s nice to see you all – and I have to say it’s a relief that the second quarter was calm enough for me to be here! Firstly let me apologize for postponing the March event I was supposed to speak to, and thank UK Finance for hosting this event instead. I had to take care of a few cases directly related to what I was going to tell you… let’s just say that I now have two less banks to supervise. In preparing my remarks for today, I naturally began with the speech I intended to deliver in March. It already seems so far away, but if you think back to the start of this year, you’ll remember that businesses and the market in general were pretty bullish. The banking sector was moving into a higher interest rate environment. Forecast energy supply shortages during the winter did not materialize. And in general, financial market commentators were talking regarding the prospect of a very soft landing. Things were indeed rather quiet. So calm that I feared the banks were beginning to think that the macroeconomic shift I reported on last year had gone off without a hitch – counting their chickens before they hatched. And so the speech I intended to give was regarding avoiding the temptation to think that three months of relative tranquility meant that we had moved on. Well. Now that we’ve seen the failure of banks like Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank, among others, in case people were complacent before, they’re probably less so now. In my opinion, these fail Read the original article in English
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