America’s biggest banks have banded together to deposit $30 billion in First Republic Bank to bolster its finances, the European Central Bank has hiked interest rates by half a percentage point, Emmanuel Macron has failed a critical parliamentary test and chose to overrule lawmakers to pass its unpopular plan to raise the retirement age in France, and the FT’s Stephen Morris explains why HSBC took a chance on Silicon Valley Bank UK.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Wall Street banks to deposit $30 billion in First Republic
ECB hikes rates by 0.5 percentage point
Macron to adopt pension reform by decree as protests sweep France
Why HSBC jumped into SVB UK
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