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On Oct. 17, 2008 Switzerland injected 3.1 billion pounds into UBS bank in return for a 9.3% stake in the bank. The government also allowed UBS to sell 31 billion pounds of sub-prime mortgages into a fund their central bank runs. UBS is Switzerland’s largest bank and now partially nationalized.
Credit Suisse the number two lender in Switzerland was directed to raise SFr 10 billion from market investors including the Qatar Investment Authority. This allowed Credit Suisse to meet the new Swiss Capital rules.
The Swiss were afraid people would lose confidence in the banking system. Sounds like this has already happened, in my humble opinion of course. The Swiss banks collectively house about SFr 3.5 trillion in deposit accounts.
The financial crisis-taking place in the USA and EU has caused SFr 85 billion of cash removal from Swiss banks in the third quarter of this year alone. The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy fiasco of caused spurred this on in September of 2008.
While the Swiss banks have responded to their crisis and toughened up capital requirements for their banks we would like to point out that the Panama banks never had a crisis to start with thus no need to change anything. Panama practiced sound banking before this financial crisis in North America and the EU.
The Ukraine is also hard hit by the crisis. The IMF offered the Ukraine 14 billion dollars to fix things with their banks in crisis. In the Ukraine the depositors pulled a run on the banks and took out 1.3 billion dollars. The banks put limits on withdrawals. Hungary is borrowing 5 billion euros from the European Central Bank. More trouble.
Standard and Poor’s just warned people that the Korean banks are struggling to service their indebtedness. More trouble on the horizon but not in Latin America.
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