Silicon Valley Bank failure, and the massive contagion it sparked, look like a classic banking run. The response from the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve—which applied nineteenth-century British economist Walter Bagehot’s principle that, to stem panic, a lender of last resort is needed—also looks quite familiar. First, in 2008, the worry about collapse was so intense that a …
Last week, California-based Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, collapsed, sending shock waves through the start-up universe. The Biden administration has announced that all the depositors’ savings in the Silicon Valley Bank will be protected, including those deposits over and above the sums that are insured. The Federal Reserve, on its part, has unveiled a …
Signature Bank’s collapse came stunningly fast, leaving behind the question of whether there was a fundamental flaw in the way it did business — or if it was just a victim of the panic that spread after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. There were few outward signs that Signature Bank was crumbling before the New York Department of Financial …
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