3.1The primary texts
Four primary texts are read, all held as files among the parent study's sources.
The FDIC's press release of 10 March 2023 (FDIC 2023) is the text served by the FDIC's website, fetched in October 2026. It is born-digital: the site's navigation, share buttons and footer were removed and blank lines closed up, and nothing else was changed. The page as served carries, under its date, the line "Last updated: March 12, 2023", a point taken up in Section 4.
The joint statement of 12 March 2023 (Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve and FDIC 2023) is the text served by the Treasury's website, likewise born-digital and likewise stripped of navigation only. In the file its sentences run on without spaces between some of them, as the page delivered them; quotations here never cross those joins.
The Swiss Federal Council's emergency ordinance of 16 March 2023 (Swiss Federal Council 2023a) and its amendment of 19 March 2023 (Swiss Federal Council 2023b) are official enactments of the Swiss Confederation, free to use under Article 5 of the Swiss Copyright Act. Both are in German. Both are the advance print (Vorabdruck) published at once; the binding version is the one in the Official Compilation of Federal Law, and each text says so on its first page. The parent study's files were extracted by machine from the text layer of the published PDFs. This is not optical character recognition: the words are those of the documents, though line breaks, page headers, footnote numbers and printers' placeholders are kept. Quotations here are copied from those files, with line breaks closed into spaces and with nothing else changed; where a footnote number is attached to a word, the quotation stops before it. The English given beside each German quotation is this study's.
Two other primary texts that would matter could not be had and are not read: the Swiss National Bank's press release of 19 March 2023, which Skeptron's Credit Suisse record names as its source, and the Swiss government's own press release of the same weekend. What is said of them comes only from the record.
3.2The records
Each episode also has a record on Skeptron, a studio of the RISCON family that publishes questions about the past drawn from public sources. A Skeptron history case gives a dated event, a short scenario, and five questions with Skeptron's answers (the date of the record, a concrete fact, the boundary of what can be judged, a calendar check, and the condition of a later comparison), with the public source the studio checked. The records are written in Korean; this article quotes the English translation made once for the parent study, in whole sentences, as block quotations.
The parent study's short labels for the two records are Silicon Valley Bank (Skeptron's title: SVB closure and FDIC receiver designation) and The Credit Suisse Takeover (Skeptron's title: the two liquidity limits in Credit Suisse acquisition support). The first is dated as of 13 September 2026 and names one source, an FDIC page whose title the translation gives as Silicon Valley Bank · Acquisition and succession contract; it does not cite either American text read here. The second is dated as of 14 September 2026 and names one source, the Swiss National Bank's press release of 19 March 2023; it does not cite the ordinance or the amendment.
These records are modern summaries written in 2026 for a public platform. They are not archival documents and not contemporary with the events. Nor are they synthetic scenes: each is a compressed reading of one public source. Their standing notice speaks of a synthetic comparison group that the studio keeps apart from the records it checks; nothing synthetic is used in this article. Each record also carries sentences that the studio repeats across many cases with only names and dates changed, which the parent study calls the frame and does not treat as evidence about any case. One example, from the Silicon Valley Bank record, is:
Announcement, decision, implementation, and outcome are not merged into the same event.
The fourth question of each case, a weekday computed by calendar arithmetic, says nothing about the event and is not used.
3.3The ledger
The two records belong to a set of 84 Skeptron cases that the parent study read on common questions; 24 of them, these two among them, it read closely. Each record was read twice, independently, by one model run twice, on questions registered with five hypotheses on 6 October 2026 before any coding. The questions ask of the record's own words, frame aside: whether the record shows an act by an authority, and of what kind; whether it presents the act as temporary or for a term; whether it names a condition, date or event on which the act would end; what became of the act; whether it gives two different dated moments; whether it sets a figure announced apart from what was available or drawn later; and whether it names who bore the cost. Where the two readings agree, the answer is treated as settled; where they differ, it is left open.
The ledger reads Skeptron's summaries, not the primary texts; it reports what a reader of the summary is told, which is why it is used here. Its results appear in the case sections in plain words, and its figures in the Appendix.