

Matt LevineBloomberg Opinion Columnist


Also an X IPO, online banking, hedge fund pay and temperature arbitrage.

Also direct listing lawsuits, SPAC lawsuits, unemployed Harvard MBAs and the CEO of Goldman Sachs is also a DJ.

Also banking vs. insurance, liability management in a world of higher rates, and crypto in tradfi.

Also Treasury bills vs. regional banks, reverse meme stocks, stock buybacks and ambassadorial investment banking.


Also SVB banker poaching, patent litigation, a Bitcoin conference and paper money.

Deposit franchises, Mizuho/Greenhill, SoftBank lending, Credit Suisse AT1s, Libor and fractional horses.

Also predatory blitzscaling, FDIC financial engineering, Credit Suisse CDS, fraud intent and fraud for fun.

Also Bed Bath & Beyond stock, AT1 changes, AT1 CDS, Michael Lewis’s SBF book and Sweetgreen’s salad robots.

Also compensation actually paid, AI M&A pitches, buybacks vs. dividends, liability management, Elon Musk’s Twitter sitter and Taylor Swift’s investments.

Also Tiger Global secondary sales, Credit Suisse AT1 CDS, BlackRock succession and FTX back taxes.

Also BlackRock and utilities, short-sale bans, the writers’ strike as securities fraud and oil-well plugging liability.

Block/Tidal, First Citizens earnings, banks had a good quarter and capital call financing.

Hedge accounting, deposit beta, private credit, passive bond funds and flinging legal documents at Shaq’s car.

Also Teck’s ESG M&A defense, the deposit franchise, nonbank lending and bank preferred stock.

Also name confusion, Coinbase vs. SEC, and US vs. South Korea vs. Do Kwon.

The Fed’s SVB report, Goldman’s SVB dealings, PacWest, Western Alliance, First Horizon and stock buyback rules.

Also Hindenburg vs. Icahn, an APE amendment and the SEC vs. stock buybacks.
