Banks must come to terms with higher costs of funding, putting some at a competitive disadvantage to their peers for the first time. The worst hit might have to rethink completely how they fund themselves.
The table shows where selected wholesale and investment banks’ five-year credit default swaps traded at the start of 2007, when just 15 basis points was the spread between what investors demanded on exposure to the least risky and the most risky.
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