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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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