Are Banks Safe?

Money For the Rest of Us

Is a bank collapse coming due to bank exposure to collateralized loan obligations as defaults increase?

Topics covered include:

• What are collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), how are they structured, and what has been their historical default rates.
• How much exposure do banks have to CLOs and will it impact your bank savings and investments.
• What are bank capital ratios and how are they calculated.
• How banks are more conservatively run due to the adoption of the Basel III regulatory framework.
• What are bank stress tests and how have they performed.
• Why the Federal Reserve just capped dividends for the largest U.S. banks.
• How many U.S. banks have failed during the pandemic crisis compared to the Great Financial Crisis.

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