Geldcast Update: banking regulation on the advice of an international body

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The Swiss government wants to set up a permanent safety net for banks on the advice of an international body. This idea is not going down well in Swiss politics.

More than CHF100 billion ($109 billion): that’s how much the Credit Suisse takeover could have cost the federal government had it not succeeded. Now the government wants to set up a permanent safety net for the banks. The recommendation for this comes from the Financial Stability Board, a body in which the world’s most important finance ministers and central bankers discuss banking regulations.

What exactly does the government want? What speaks in favour of a state liquidity guarantee – and what speaks against it? And how does the government’s proposal relate to the banks’ capital requirements? Find out this and more in the latest Geldcast update.

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Author Fabio Canetg completed his doctorate in monetary policy at the University of Bern and the Toulouse School of Economics. Today he is a lecturer at the University of Bern. As a journalist, he works for SRF Arena, Republik Magazin and SWI swissinfo.ch, where he hosts the monetary policy podcast Geldcast.