Bank runs in 2023: assessment and policy implications for liquidity risk mgt

Bank runs in 2023: assessment and policy implications for liquidity risk management

Dr. Richard Senner, Financial Stability Dept., Swiss National Bank

Tuesday 16th September 2025: 1700 BST / 1800 CET / 1200 EST

The Certificate of Bank Treasury Risk Management (BTRM) and University of Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) are pleased to bring the next in our occasional series of "Thought Leadership" webinars for banking markets. Dr. Richard Senner presents results from a paper co-authored with U. Bindseil (ECB), which assessed the 2023 bank failures. The markets witnessed rapid and large deposit outflows from medium-sized US regional banks as well as Credit Suisse, in all cases leading ultimately to those banks's demise. Richard's lecture will look at where bank deposits flowed out to, as well as current and prospective future factors that may contribute to the increase of the speed and size of bank runs. Bank ALM managers must accept the new normal of less stable and more expensive sight deposits, as well as other "lessons learned".