This was counterparty surveillance


The best image I can come up with to explain "the failure of counterparty surveillance" is the picture of group skydiving. I got you, you got me... what can go wrong.

When everyone was falling to ground, everyone else saw everyone stable relative to themselves. Unaware of the bigger risk, banks just kept on holding to each other.

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