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title: Bank Leverage Risk
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4956226/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4956226
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4956226
featured: 2024-09-18
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Bank Leverage Risk

Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank experienced a loss of trust due to poor management of their liquidity, capital, and interest rate risk.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4956226
- Identifier: SSRN 4956226
- Released: 2024-08-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 66 (2024-09-18): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-09-18/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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