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Archegos Capital, the heavily leveraged family office of former Tiger Cub Bill Hwang, reportedly triggered huge losses in a handful of stocks, including ViacomCBS and Discovery, that began last Friday. Now the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, and other global regulators are considering what to do to prevent a similar implosion.
The stock meltdown impacted six banks who lent money on margin to Hwang’s family office, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and Nomura. The chaos apparently started when Hwang couldn’t make his margin calls. The banks started selling shares of the companies on Friday, rocking the markets and sending investors into a tail spin to figure out what was happening.