Re:Credit Suisse Takes $4.7B Hit on Archegos Meltdown
by occamrazor on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:32PM
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Personally I don’t understand why so many people are blaming Hwang and Archegos. He lost his own money and the money of the banks who gave him leverage _without_ a proper risk assessment. I haven’t seen any claims that Hwang lied to the banks and it’s the banks’ job to do due diligence and apply sane risk management practices.
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Re:Credit Suisse Takes $4.7B Hit on Archegos Meltdown
by fractionalhare on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:45PM
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I don't personally have any skin in the game, but of course I blame him for losing his money. It's his fault, who else would I blame? Pretty cut and dry case of terrible risk management here. What seems controversial?
Nobody held a gun to his head and told him to load up crazy leverage on a highly concentrated basket of equities... And the banks that lent him money didn't have transparency as to his leverage elsewhere.
Re:Credit Suisse Takes $4.7B Hit on Archegos Meltdown
by lordnacho on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:49PM
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I think it's more an awe for the scale of capital destruction.
In the end this isn't a domino that topples the whole financial system, risk was taken by a guy who had money, and banks who are capitalized to lose money now and again.