Banking Crisis 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler emphasized the connection between the cryptocurrency market and the recent banking crisis in testimony on Capitol Hill. He seeks more resources to police crypto firms whose business model, he says, is "noncompliance."

With once-in-a-generation levels of inflation whittling away at their savings, Americans are once again beginning to fall behind on payments, bank earnings show.

The FDIC seems poised to let small banks off the hook for replenishing the deposit insurance fund after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank's failures last month. But regulators should remember that small banks can still pose systemic risks.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it will propose a special assessment to cover losses from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in May, and noted that bank deposit outflows are largely uninsured.

The lender is the first of the six biggest US banks to brave the corporate bond markets since a series of bank failures in March sent risk premiums on financial debt soaring.

The Home Loan Bank System says it is working precisely as Congress intended it to, by lending to banks in stress. Critics say borrowings can spread undercapitalized banks' problems into the broader financial system.

More credit unions are diversifying their investments and accessing federal funding from multiple sources to shore up against risk.

The asset manager on Tuesday is set to begin a monthslong process to help the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. offload $114 billion of assets it picked up from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. 

One of the architects of Britain's financial regulation has called for higher capital charges on banks as a "quid pro quo" if the government decides to strengthen deposit guarantees in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.

Charles Schwab's underwater securities portfolio has prompted some analysts to lump it together with Silicon Valley Bank. CEO Walt Bettinger says those views are vastly mistaken.