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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Currencies
      Zero francs given

      Hail to the CHF

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Switzerland presses ahead with rate rise despite banking crisis

      Central bank efforts have ‘put a halt’ to country’s financial turmoil, says governor Thomas Jordan

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Credit Suisse Group AG
      Swiss regulator defends $17bn wipeout of AT1 bonds in Credit Suisse deal

      Writedown after takeover by UBS enraged holders of risky bonds

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Banks in turmoil
      ‘Credit Suisse is part of our history’: shocked nation digests bank’s collapse

      Inquest begins into how a lender regarded as a national institution could fall so fast

    • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
      Central banks
      Central banks announce dollar liquidity measures to ease banking crisis

      Turmoil prompts authorities to launch daily operations to access dollar funding via standing swap lines

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Credit Suisse Group AG
      Nobody puts Suissie in a corner

      Credit Suisse draws SFr50bn of liquidity from SNB

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Credit Suisse Group AG
      Credit Suisse shares rally after $54bn lifeline from Swiss central bank

      Troubled lender taps emergency funding following sell-off that shook global financial sector

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Credit Suisse Group AG
      Swiss central bank offers Credit Suisse liquidity backstop

      Lender tumbles as much as 30% after top shareholder rules out participating in equity raise

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      LexCredit Suisse Group AG
      Credit Suisse: Swiss National Bank must step in to halt three-way doom loop Premium content

      The onus is now on the Swiss central bank to reassure investors

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Swiss central bank lifts interest rate by 50 basis points

      Bank warns of significant ‘macroeconomic uncertainties’ next year

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Currencies
      Mysterious $11bn Swiss swapsies

      OK this is eye-catching

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      Central banks
      Japan intervenes to shore up yen as ‘reverse currency wars’ deepen

      UK, Switzerland, Norway and South Africa all raise rates in wake of Fed move

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      Swiss National Bank raises rates by 0.75 percentage points

      Move to 0.5% marks the end of an era of negative interest rates in Europe

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
      Central banks and markets share a secular awakening

      There is no hiding from the long-term transition to more challenging financial conditions

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The global economy is not going to be calmer any time soon

      Central banks are racing to adapt to a world of high inflation and weak growth

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Swiss central bank surprises with first interest rate rise since 2007

      Franc surges on SNB announcement that benchmark rate would rise to minus 0.25%

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Currencies
      Ignore the SNB’s huge stonking losses

      The Swiss central bank still sits on a fat financial cushion from its equity investments

    • Monday, 4 April, 2022
      The SNB is trying to halt the franc’s rise again

      But we’re not quite sure why.

    • Friday, 11 March, 2022
      Asset allocation
      Big investors to shift billions from bonds into stock markets

      Equity inflows could reach $230bn in the coming weeks as funds rebalance their portfolios, says JPMorgan

    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      News in-depthCentral banks
      Federal Reserve clampdown on staff trading turns spotlight on other central banks

      Rules on personal investments vary — some, such as the BoJ, are strict while others grant bankers more freedom

    • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
      Markets InsightEva Szalay
      Swiss franc shrugs off being put on the naughty step by US

      Flood of money unleashed by the Fed has put dollar under pressure against other currencies

    • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
      SNB figures show burst of franc-dousing interventions

      Central bank’s balance sheet is now closing in on $1tn in size

    • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
      Switzerland ready to hold down franc with sharper interventions

      Country’s haven currency under intense upward pressure due to Covid-19 crisis

    • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
      Central bank intervention
      Central banks scale back dollar lending operation as demand drops

      Use of swap lines declines as financial system recovers from coronavirus panic

    • Wednesday, 6 May, 2020
      Currencies
      Swiss National Bank’s swollen balance-sheet poses risk to ‘credibility’

      Analysts fear unintended consequences of central bank’s vast foreign-currency holdings

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