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Personally not familiar with the banking sector. Do majority of banks hedge their HTM portfolio and SVB was an exception or this is not common practice to begin with?

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Hi Daniel, tbh I'm not 100% sure, but yes banks do hedge their interest rate sensitive portfolios with swaps as a common practice. SVB was very much an exception, as other Substack commentary has pointed out.

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