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Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up

The Wall Street Journal2021-06-25

In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically. Credit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...

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Spac time again?
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That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122526653,"gmtCreate":1624628470572,"gmtModify":1703842123892,"author":{"id":"4087135069921330","authorId":"4087135069921330","name":"WinWinWinner","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f5a6398d7deab122ba51b03c6952afeb","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4087135069921330","authorIdStr":"4087135069921330"},"htmlText":"Oh","listText":"Oh","text":"Oh","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122526653","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122250177,"gmtCreate":1624624517699,"gmtModify":1703841987737,"author":{"id":"3584237572672012","authorId":"3584237572672012","name":"limshee","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3584237572672012","authorIdStr":"3584237572672012"},"htmlText":"YES","listText":"YES","text":"YES","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122250177","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122234422,"gmtCreate":1624622181766,"gmtModify":1703841931172,"author":{"id":"3578439260866475","authorId":"3578439260866475","name":"VickJW","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc8189137ac06a254539a020b5b368b2","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3578439260866475","authorIdStr":"3578439260866475"},"htmlText":"Oh noooo","listText":"Oh noooo","text":"Oh noooo","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122234422","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122670820,"gmtCreate":1624619750160,"gmtModify":1703841877009,"author":{"id":"3574547619690492","authorId":"3574547619690492","name":"UTOtrader","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/82be6befb29ac8516e463638d3f659d5","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574547619690492","authorIdStr":"3574547619690492"},"htmlText":"Hahaha","listText":"Hahaha","text":"Hahaha","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122670820","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122663453,"gmtCreate":1624617618472,"gmtModify":1703841823981,"author":{"id":"3586931593498823","authorId":"3586931593498823","name":"Mitchu","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3586931593498823","authorIdStr":"3586931593498823"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122663453","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122669684,"gmtCreate":1624617540548,"gmtModify":1703841821707,"author":{"id":"3574683609691072","authorId":"3574683609691072","name":"Kdf","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574683609691072","authorIdStr":"3574683609691072"},"htmlText":"Nice","listText":"Nice","text":"Nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122669684","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5012418,"gmtCreate":1624617549789,"gmtModify":1663229999243,"authorId":3574683609691072,"author":{"id":3574683609691072,"idStr":"3574683609691072","authorId":3574683609691072,"name":"Kdf","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":122669684,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"},{"id":5012461,"gmtCreate":1624617891547,"gmtModify":1663229996355,"authorId":3574678811787226,"author":{"id":3574678811787226,"idStr":"3574678811787226","authorId":3574678811787226,"name":"Sleepybear","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f41ffbbaf78e15d931fd8d15b528e608","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":122669684,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Nice ni","text":"Nice ni","html":"Nice ni"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122682045,"gmtCreate":1624617199187,"gmtModify":1703841813242,"author":{"id":"3581814406562580","authorId":"3581814406562580","name":"bhahab","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/da94be6bbb6d4ccc736167ee40fdfe71","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581814406562580","authorIdStr":"3581814406562580"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122682045","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122612674,"gmtCreate":1624616568898,"gmtModify":1703841799697,"author":{"id":"3586745206953283","authorId":"3586745206953283","name":"超级小白牛","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/581cd62ff3ccd542906d94cb1ac672fe","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c5ceab71416b120bab4604c0754b52a","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3586745206953283","authorIdStr":"3586745206953283"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122612674","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122616752,"gmtCreate":1624616549876,"gmtModify":1703841798723,"author":{"id":"3584779133668268","authorId":"3584779133668268","name":"NPC69","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/47e7ac55312ae8dd1c9e7cb92adad089","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3584779133668268","authorIdStr":"3584779133668268"},"htmlText":"Like.&nbsp;","listText":"Like.&nbsp;","text":"Like.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122616752","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5012364,"gmtCreate":1624617222337,"gmtModify":1663229995355,"authorId":3581814406562580,"author":{"id":3581814406562580,"idStr":"3581814406562580","authorId":3581814406562580,"name":"bhahab","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/da94be6bbb6d4ccc736167ee40fdfe71","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":122616752,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>like</u>","text":"<u>like</u>","html":"<u>like</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122638750,"gmtCreate":1624615792370,"gmtModify":1703841783834,"author":{"id":"3577240461071515","authorId":"3577240461071515","name":"EveChai","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/90dc966ea82015d8854eb667b7c1d0b4","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577240461071515","authorIdStr":"3577240461071515"},"htmlText":"SPAC speculate. 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That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122638007,"gmtCreate":1624615718609,"gmtModify":1703841782542,"author":{"id":"3575429532311028","authorId":"3575429532311028","name":"RuniMan","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0aae00c36538a5840219b213e3d6c57d","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575429532311028","authorIdStr":"3575429532311028"},"htmlText":"sure, can go over my profile for like and comment on my first post pls? thanks alot..","listText":"sure, can go over my profile for like and comment on my first post pls? thanks alot..","text":"sure, can go over my profile for like and comment on my first post pls? thanks alot..","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122638007","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":122630893,"gmtCreate":1624615427012,"gmtModify":1703841777837,"author":{"id":"3571009840536733","authorId":"3571009840536733","name":"HKhin","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/315ef1291b235114bbffd11981704437","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3571009840536733","authorIdStr":"3571009840536733"},"htmlText":"Spac time again?","listText":"Spac time again?","text":"Spac time again?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122630893","repostId":1109458065,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1109458065","pubTimestamp":1624615245,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1109458065?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-25 18:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1109458065","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check busi","content":"<blockquote>\n In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Credit Suisse GroupAG’s&nbsp;CS&nbsp;3.82%&nbsp;business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.</p>\n<p>Now the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>Across banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/777ddeb9a4b4bdfef27a7dcd09a5104a\" tg-width=\"734\" tg-height=\"508\"></p>\n<p>SPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.</p>\n<p>Nearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.</p>\n<p>The SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.</p>\n<p>The SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.</p>\n<p>The bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.</p>\n<p>Credit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse’s SPAC Bonanza Dries Up\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-25 18:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisses-spac-bonanza-dries-up-11624614653","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1109458065","content_text":"In a year of crises related to Archegos and Greensill, the Swiss bank had a booming blank-check business to fall back on. That has now slowed dramatically.\n\nCredit Suisse GroupAG’s CS 3.82% business underwriting blank-check SPACs boomed to start the year. That helped offset other huge problems—most notably a $5.5 billion loss from the Marchcollapse ofArchegos Capital Management.\nNow the market for SPACs—or special-purpose acquisition companies—has come off the boil, and new underwriting fees are threatening to dry up.Credit Suisse’s SPAC dealsare being closely watched by investors and analysts, because revenue from them came to represent a large chunk of overall investment-banking revenue last year. That raised concerns that the fees and deal volume might not be sustainable.\nCredit Suisse went from making an estimated $466 million in gross SPAC underwriting fees in the first quarter, to $16.1 million between April 1 and June 15, according to data provider Refinitiv.\nAcross banks, SPAC underwriting fees fell to $541 million in the second quarter to June 15, from a record $4.85 billion in the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data. Other banks, includingCitigroupInc.andGoldman Sachs GroupInc.,also saw sharp dives in their SPAC initial public offering fees in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data.\n\nSPACs are shell companies that raise money to target a private company and take it public. They became a popular cash cow for big-name investors and celebrities in soaring stock markets, but demand cooled in the second quarter as shares of somecompanies that merged with SPACs tumbledand the Securities and Exchange Commission toughened its stance on the format.\nThe drop-off in activity doesn’t mean banks will stop reporting strong SPAC revenue. Refinitiv calculates full IPO underwriting fees upfront, while in practice, banks receive around 2% of money raised when the SPAC goes public and another 3.5% or so if and when the SPAC buys or merges with another company. Mergers continued in the second quarter, producing those deferred underwriting fees, and frequently additional fees too for deal advice or raising more cash.\nNearly 300 SPACs have said they intend to raise money, meaning new blank-check IPOs and underwriting could pick up again.\nThe SPAC business is emblematic of thebank’s post-Archegos dilemma: It wants to ratchet down risk and focus on managing the wealth of the global rich—but investment banking brought in 40% of revenue last year. Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório, who started May 1, said there could be strategic changes and that tough decisions lie ahead.\nCredit Suisse’s share price has been among the worst performers of global banks this year, down 14%. Over the same period, an index of European banking stocks is up by more than one quarter.\nThe SPAC fee surge last year helped Credit Suisse offset $1.3 billion in unexpected charges from a legal case, and revaluing a hedge-fund stake. The revenue took on more importance when Archegos Capital, the family office of hedge-fund manager Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet margin calls at several banks in March, causing more than $10 billion in losses at lenders exiting the Archegos positions.\nCredit Suisse said it was able to largely contain losses from Archegos because of the strong quarter it had elsewhere in the investment bank, including in underwriting SPACs and other IPOs. It reported a $275 million first-quarter net loss andtapped shareholders for $2 billion capitalin April.\nThe bank said losses could also be material from the collapse of another client,financial firm Greensill Capital, with which Credit Suisse ran $10 billion in investment funds.\nCredit Suisse doesn’t break out SPAC revenue in published earnings. However, its chief financial officer, David Mathers, told analysts in April that around $300 million of $1.5 billion capital markets and advisory fees in the first quarter came from SPACs. Revenue across Credit Suisse was around $8.4 billion.\nCredit Suisse was the biggest underwriter of SPACs last year, benefiting from relationships with serial SPAC founders such asventure capitalist Chamath Palihapitiyaand deal maker and Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley. The Swiss bank invested in the sector in the years before SPACs went mainstream, hiring veteran SPAC banker Niron Stabinsky in 2015.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5012118,"gmtCreate":1624615645358,"gmtModify":1663229993639,"authorId":3573023523256265,"author":{"id":3573023523256265,"idStr":"3573023523256265","authorId":3573023523256265,"name":"Toratoratora","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4620e4b1ebb53c254b704a72429a7a3b","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":122630893,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>k</u>","text":"<u>k</u>","html":"<u>k</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":50,"commentSize":13,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}