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FTSE 100 also falls amid fears another bank could slip into trouble after UBS takeover of Credit Suisse.

It’s does the market have confidence in our liquidity?” “I can’t see it – yet,” they said, adding that the “worry of contagion may become contagion itself”. They helped to drag the FTSE 100 down by 1.6%. If this spikes upward it can be an indication that investors believe that the entity behind the CDS is more likely to default on its debts. Shares in the German bank fell as much as 14% before recovering some ground to end Friday down 8.6%. Europe’s Stoxx 600 banks index fell 4%, and the UK’s banking index fell more than 3%.

European bank shares slumped Friday, sending stock markets tanking as contagion fears erupted once more after a raft of global interest rate hikes.

And it does not seem like we are at that stage yet.” “Contagion fears are not yet going away,” warned Finalto analyst Neil Wilson. Share prices in energy majors including BP, Shell and TotalEnergies also tanked. Shares in Deutsche Bank - which has more than a trillion dollars of assets - have dropped 12% Shares in Deutsche Bank dropped more than 13 per cent on Friday as the cost of insurance against the risk of default surged. Frankfurt’s Deutsche Bank shares nosedived more than 13 per cent on the lender’s spiking cost of default cover, or credit default swaps, while peer Commerzbank tumbled by 10 per cent.

The German institution is “on everyone's minds” as the possible next “domino to fall,” according to one analyst.

About half of the outflows came in the weeks following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, according to J.P. banks lost about $1.1 trillion in deposits over the last year, according to a recent J.P. The unexpected failures of mid-sized American banks Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank earlier this month sent shockwaves throughout the global financial system, eventually leading to the last-second rescue of Credit Suisse. banks each slid more than 1%, while shares of First Republic, the American bank most often floated as the next institution at serious risk, fell 5%. Holders of $17 billion in risky Credit Suisse bonds were not a part of the rescue deal and were left empty-handed, contributing to the rise in Deutsche Bank credit default swap rates as investors hope to avoid similarly finding themselves out of luck. for its “irresponsible lending practices” in 2006 and 2007 that partially caused the Great Recession, managed to navigate through that controversy by dramatically cutting costs, cutting roughly 20% of its global workforce in a single day in 2018 and successfully turning a profit in its last 10 quarters.

Worries over the financial strength of the sector persist, with Deutsche Bank shares down 14% at one point.

In Europe, the banks hit by a sell-off from worried investors included Germany's Commerzbank, which saw shares fall about 5%. But on Friday St. These rate rises have hit the value of investments that banks keep some of their money in, and contributed to the bank failures in the US. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey also told the BBC that the UK banking system was "safe and sound". Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, told the BBC that the drop in Deutsche Bank's share price, and a sharp jump in the cost of insuring against a possible default by the bank, was "indicative of a wider loss of confidence in the banking sector". Sharp declines in banking shares in Europe have renewed concerns that the panic triggered by the collapse of two US banks and rushed takeover of Swiss giant Credit Suisse may not be easily contained.

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Central banks and regulators had hoped that the Credit Suisse rescue deal would help calm investor jitters about the stability of Europe's banks.

and Europe, it is just how far regulators will always go to ensure depositors are protected," the note said. [underwent a multibillion-euro restructure](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/deutsche-bank-eyes-huge-multi-billion-euro-restructuring-drive.html) in recent years aimed at reducing costs and improving profitability. Credit Suisse's collapse boiled down to a combination of three causes, according to JPMorgan. relative value)," Autonomous strategists Stuart Graham and Leona Li said in a research note. These figures would not indicate that there is any cause for concern about the bank's solvency or liquidity position. Federal Reserve](https://www.cnbc.com/federal-reserve/) on Wednesday. JPMorgan was unable to determine whether the unprecedented depositor outflows suffered by the Swiss bank had been amassed by themselves in light of SVB's failure, or had been driven by a fear of those outflows and "lack of conviction in management's assurances." These were a "string of governance failures that had eroded confidence in management's abilities," a challenging market backdrop that hampered the bank's restructuring plan, and the market's "fresh and intense focus on liquidity risk" in the wake of the SVB collapse. At the time of SVB's collapse, Credit Suisse was already in the spotlight over its liquidity position and had suffered massive outflows in the fourth quarter of 2022 that had yet to reverse. The lender [recorded annual net income of 5 billion euros ($5.4 billion) in 2022](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/deutsche-bank-smashes-profit-expectations-in-fourth-quarter-as-higher-interest-rates-bolster-revenue.html), up 159% from the previous year. [emergency rescue](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/what-ubs-rescue-of-credit-suisse-cs-means-for-markets-and-banks.html) of [Credit Suisse](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/CSG.N-CH/) by [UBS](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/0R3T-GB/), in the wake of the collapse of [U.S.-based Silicon Valley Bank](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/hsbc-buys-silicon-valley-bank-uk-protecting-deposits-.html), has triggered contagion concern among investors, which was deepened by further monetary policy tightening from the [U.S. [wipe out 16 billion Swiss francs ($17.4 billion) of Credit Suisse's additional tier-one (AT1) bonds,](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/21/credit-suisse-bondholders-prepare-lawsuit-after-at1-bond-writedown-in-ubs-deal.html) left the market unconvinced that the deal would be sufficient to contain the stresses in the sector.

Europe's banking stocks tumbled Friday as investors acted on their lingering worries that the recent crises at some banks could spill over into the wider ...

The bond would have gradually lost its eligibility as a form of regulatory capital according to rules brought in after the 2008 financial crisis, the source said. Some analysts said investors had been rattled by Deutsche Bank’s announcement Friday that it would pay back one of its bonds five years before its maturity date. The cost of insuring against a possible default by Deutsche Bank on its debt has soared in recent days. [(DB)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=DB&source=story_quote_link), plunged as much as 14.5% before paring its losses to close 8.5% lower. Deutsche’s five-year credit default swaps (CDS) skyrocketed to 203 basis points Thursday, according to data from S&P Market Intelligence. The index is down 18% from its high in late February. [emergency takeover](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/20/investing/credit-suisse-at1-bond-write-down-explainer/index.html) brokered by the Swiss government. [hike interest rates](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/16/economy/european-central-bank-interest-rates/index.html) by half a percentage point, judging that inflation posed a bigger threat to the economy than recent turmoil in the banking sector. Shares in UBS [(UBS)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=UBS&source=story_quote_link) and Credit Suisse [(CS)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=CS&source=story_quote_link) were 3.6% and 5.2% down respectively. But — after two bank collapses in the United States and an emergency takeover of Credit Suisse this month — some investors may have interpreted the announcement as a sign that Deutsche Bank is nervous about the state of the banking sector and trying to overcompensate, Jonas Goltermann, deputy chief markets economist at Capital Economics, told CNN. [surprise spike in inflation](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/23/economy/uk-interest-rates-hike/index.html) last month. [crises at some banks ](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/15/economy/european-bank-rules-svb/index.html)could spill over into the wider sector.

Shares of Germany's largest bank Deutsche Bank slid on Friday as investors fretted that regulators and central banks have yet to contain the worst shock to ...

The index of top European bank shares [(.SX7P)](https://www.reuters.com/quote/.SX7P) ended down 3.8%. A spokesperson for UniCredit declined to comment. [(JPM.N)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/JPM.N) ended down 1.5%, while Bank of America [(BAC.N)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/BAC.N) climbed 0.6%. "It takes time. The meeting was chaired by U.S. regulators - agreed at a Friday meeting that the U.S. Treasury said the Financial Stability Oversight Council - which comprises the heads of various U.S. In the latest effort to reassure investors, the U.S. [(CRDI.MI)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/CRDI.MI) is leaning towards [repaying a perpetual bond](/markets/rates-bonds/unicredit-leaning-towards-repaying-at1-bond-june-source-2023-03-24/) at the earliest opportunity in June, a source close to the matter told Reuters. [(.SPLRCBNKS)](https://www.reuters.com/quote/.SPLRCBNKS) recovered 1.75%, with PacWest Bancorp rallying more than 3% and First Republic Bank [(FRC.N)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/FRC.N) falling 1.4%. [(DBKGn.DE)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/DBKGn.DE) was thrust into the investor spotlight and [slumped](/markets/deutsche-bank-shares-whipsaw-after-cds-blow-out-2023-03-24/) 8.5% alongside a sharp jump in the cost of [insuring](/markets/deutsche-bank-shares-whipsaw-after-cds-blow-out-2023-03-24/) its bonds against the risk of default. [(SBNY.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/SBNY.O) earlier this month.

Tumbling stocks dragged down other major banks across Europe, fuelling fears about a banking sector crisis.

Deutsche Bank said on Friday that it would redeem $1.5bn in tier 2 bonds early. Efforts to strengthen banking regulation in recent years “puts us all in a position to say that European banking supervision and the financial system are robust and stable and that we have resilient capitalisation of European banks”, Scholz said. Last year, it booked its highest annual profit since 2007. The bank was hit by a string of problems linked to its attempts before the 2008 global financial crisis to compete with Wall Street investment banking giants. Speaking in Brussels after a summit of EU leaders, he also said the European banking system was “stable” with strict rules and regulations. Shares in Deutsche Bank have fallen sharply, dragging down other major European banks and reigniting fears about a widening banking sector crisis.

Shares in Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest lender, have fallen sharply and dragged down major European banks as fears about the global financial system send ...

International negotiators agreed to those rules following the 2008 global financial crisis triggered by the failure of U.S. failures focused less-friendly attention on banks and a key Credit Suisse investor refused to put up more money. That followed a steep rise in the cost to insure bondholders against the bank defaulting on its debts, known as credit default swaps. banks and jitters about Credit Suisse’s long-running troubles led its shares to tank and customers to pull out their money. Efforts to strengthen banking regulation in recent years “puts us all in a position to say that European banking supervision and the financial system are robust and stable and that we have resilient capitalization of European banks,” Scholz said. authorities for misleading buyers of complex mortgage-backed securities that later went sour. Rising costs on insuring debt were also a prelude to Swiss lender Credit Suisse’s government-backed rescue by rival UBS. However, the selloff of European bank shares “continues to appear more related to lack of confidence than fundamentals.” Davide Oneglia at investment strategy research provider TS Lombard said it wasn’t surprising that “the next bank in the firing line is now Deutsche Bank.” It was associated with Credit Suisse in the past because of “managerial/strategic failures and involvement in many financial scandals” despite its recent profits. The selloff “might also be more emotionally driven, so to speak, rather than based on facts, but this is something that had to be expected” based on its history and performance after the global financial crisis, he said. The market values the bank at less than the assets on its balance sheet, he said: “That means investors are still very worried about what are the risks that the bank has on its balance sheet or its earnings potential going forward, and that’s not good.” “Deutsche Bank has thoroughly modernized and reorganized its business and is a very profitable bank,” Scholz said after a European Union summit in Brussels.

German lender's shares were hit by general loss of confidence, not by any specific failings.

None of which, though, explains why – other than its recently chequered record – Deutsche found itself in the spotlight. [At its worst point, Deutsche was down 14%](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/24/european-bank-shares-fall-as-market-jitters-return-deutsche-bank-ubs-ftse-100). The ECB, the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England raised interest rates this week. At Deutsche, the only minor news from Frankfurt was a decision to buy back a small slice of its debt, which regulators would not have permitted if they were worried about liquidity. Nor, as far as we know, is the European Central Bank in a flap about Deutsche in the way that Swiss authorities were when they advanced a 50bn Swiss franc borrowing facility to Credit Suisse in the days before There is no evidence of a flight of depositors at Deutsche, the factor that really sealed Credit Suisse’s fate.

Deutsche Bank saw its shares plunge 8.5% which has fanned existing concerns around the global stability of the banking system.

Shares in Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest lender, have fallen sharply and dragged down major European banks as fears about weaknesses in the global ...

International negotiators agreed to those rules following the 2008 global financial crisis triggered by the failure of U.S. failures focused less-friendly attention on banks and a key Credit Suisse investor refused to put up more money. That followed a steep rise in the cost to insure bondholders against the bank defaulting on its debts, known as credit default swaps. banks and jitters about Credit Suisse's long-running troubles led its shares to tank and customers to pull out their money. Efforts to strengthen banking regulation in recent years “puts us all in a position to say that European banking supervision and the financial system are robust and stable and that we have resilient capitalization of European banks,” Scholz said. authorities for misleading buyers of complex mortgage-backed securities that later went sour. U.S. Rising costs on insuring debt were also a prelude to Swiss lender Credit Suisse's government-backed rescue by rival UBS. Its holdings of derivatives — often complex investments whose price is tied to other assets — are “well known” and “just not very scary, in our view,” Graham and Li said. However, the selloff of European bank shares “continues to appear more related to lack of confidence than fundamentals.” The selloff “might also be more emotionally driven, so to speak, rather than based on facts, but this is something that had to be expected" based on its history and performance after the global financial crisis, he said. “Deutsche Bank has thoroughly modernized and reorganized its business and is a very profitable bank,” Scholz said after a European Union summit in Brussels.