The Deal Desk

Episode 20

Valuing banks and insurers, or the bank that sold for a fifteenth of its book

In March twenty twenty-three, U-B-S paid three billion francs for a bank whose accounts showed forty-five billion of equity. Nobody believed the accounts.

First released 12 October 202612 minAI voices by Google GeminiDownload MP3 (9 MB)

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