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March 17, 2023

‘It was pretty chaotic’: The roundtable that got the UK government to act on SVB

On Startup Europe, The Sifted Podcast, we chat about the sleepless weekend that went from a bank crash to a swift sale


Steph Bailey

2 min read

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