US regional banks are seeing “permanently” elevated funding costs relative to their major competitors in the wake of the March turmoil that upended the sector and financial markets, according to Torsten Slok at Apollo Management.Eight months after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, “large banks continue to enjoy significantly lower funding costs and, hence, higher profit margins than regional banks,” Slok, the firm’s chief economist, said in a note Tuesday.
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