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  • Banks are facing a lot of risks right now — but the danger isn't from SVB's collapse, the IIF's head said.
  • Look instead to central banks' interest-rate hikes and geopolitical tensions, Tim Adams told CNBC.
  • "The downside risks are real and we just don't know how deep they are," the finance industry group CEO said.

Banks are facing a lot of risks right now — but the biggest threat lies in central banks' rate-hike campaigns and geopolitical tensions rather than in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, according to the CEO of the Institute of International Finance. 

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The real risks banks face lie in central banks' rate-hike campaigns and geopoli…