Marat Markert

@maratmarkert
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Twitter emigree, interested in critical macro finance, Central banking, economic history and sociology of money, monetary and financial systems. Works at Leiden University
We should entertain the idea that it might not be the same pattern as during the eurozone crisis, but this time the banking system in one of the “stronger” economies might come under stress.
…and vast majority of retail clients doing all their banking stuff via mobile banking?
Twin-Shock of r% risk and sudden deposit outflows thanks to mobile banking would ignite a bank-sovereign doom-loop and deposits fleeing weaker countries to stronger ones? Well, who are the € area economies w banks that have massive long dated mortgages at low r% on their books…
Quite a chart on FTX’s corporate structure (web of shell companies and SPVs). https://www.ft.com/content/c28e0570-d4c4-433c-b0a0-c99fba613822 What’s astounding: FTX was proposing earlier this year an infrastructure for trading crypto derivatives 24/7/365 with automatic liquidation. Nothing would halt the process, not even a bankruptcy procedure in which a client/trader might find itself in.
Yet FTX’s own structure ensures bankruptcy remoteness through obfuscation.
Untangling the knotty empire of Bankman-Fried and FTX

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