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live from london, this is bbc news. avoiding another banking crisis: us regulators race against the clock to find a buyerfor troubled first republic bank, whose shares plunged last week. more protests in france as unions call for further strike action against the government s pension reforms. and solving london s housing crisis: we ll tell you how one community is building its own solution by selling affordable housing to the locals. hello. i m mark lobel, here with your top business stories. let s start in the united states, where us regulators are racing to find a buyer for the troubled first republic bank. the federal deposit insurance corporation has reportedly asked six banks to bid for the lender, and wants a deal in place within the next 2a hours. shares in first republic plunged last week after it admitted customers had withdrawn $100 billion in deposits in march. at that time, its competitor silicon valley bank had collapsed, prompting fears of a wider banking crisis
hello and welcome to bbc news. banks and governments around the world are nervously watching the european markets to see if the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. so far the markets seem reasonably calm with shares in credit suisse rising almost 30% after the swiss national bank gave it a lifeline. and other stocks are up too. but there are concerns that a potential interest rate rise later on thursday by the european central bank could add further volatility to the situation. earlier our business presenter sally bundock explained why the situation at credit suisse was notjust important to the financial community but to all of us: a real worry about credit suisse. if that bank, which is 160 odd years old in switzerland, were to fail, it could have the same effect that the lehman brothers collapse had in 2008, which is it brings a huge amount of fear within markets about the stability of other banks. so people therefore act very quickly