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## [Banks suffer 'mini crisis of confidence'](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/banks-suffer-mini-crisis-of-confidence)

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 07/03/16 17:58 [Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma) 0 [Market views & MiFID II](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/topic/Market%20views%20%26%20MiFID%20II)

**It is hard to pin down what spooked investors in the recent rout of European financials. Read what Daniel Davies, our MD Equity has to say in this [FT article. ](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/daf9f04a-e07d-11e5-8d9b-e88a2a889797,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fdaf9f04a-e07d-11e5-8d9b-e88a2a889797.html&_i_referer=&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app#axzz42DjSBxmH)**

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## ABOUT POST AUTHOR

### [Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma)

Darren has been a credit analyst in the City of London for 23 years (there were also all-too-brief postings to Paris and Buenos Aires, which made the man, as you can imagine). In 2005 he founded Frontline Analysts to train smart people around the world to be great capital markets analysts. Hailing from Birmingham, Darren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.

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