Many banks whose shares got hammered a day earlier rebounded strongly, with double-digit gains at Western Alliance Bancorp, First Republic Bank and PacWest Bancorp in midafternoon trading.

The White House and regulators have sought to ease fears about the banking system, but business depositors as well as regional bank investors remain jittery. Speculation has accelerated about potential buyers of the failed Silicon Valley and Signature banks, the health of certain other regionals and how deposit costs will change.

The KBW Nasdaq Bank Index dropped 9.6% on Monday as the fallout from two bank failures prompted investors to trim their exposures. Some regional institutions saw declines of 30% or more, while the nation's largest banks had much more modest declines.

Tim Mayopoulos, who led the government-sponsored enterprise for six years following the Great Recession, will oversee the FDIC-created entity intended to protect Silicon Valley Bank depositors.

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Observers say that most other banks with an overlapping customer base are in a better place than SVB to manage the risks.

The FDIC named Greg Carmichael, who retired last year as CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp, to run a bridge bank that will hold Signature's deposits and most of its assets.

The San Francisco-based bank, whose stock came under pressure after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, said the increased borrowing capacity strengthens and diversifies its funding. The bank's "capital and liquidity positions are very strong," executives said.

The bank's tech-sector focus contributed to its rapid demise. But the reasons for its failure come down to the nuts and bolts of banking, and other banks may have similar vulnerabilities.

The abrupt downfall of Silicon Valley Bank prompted investors to question whether other banks that hold tech-related deposits could also be at risk. But one analyst said there could be opportunities for banks to add deposits from customers of the failed bank.

Brett Mooney returns to the card network as the country manager for Canada, a digital-forward market that is attracting more competition from banks and fintechs.

In Kirschner, v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A — a case that could drastically change banks' role in the syndicated loan market — judges in the Second Circuit wondered how banking regulators view the syndicated loan market.

Federal banking regulators should allow banks to receive Community Reinvestment Act credit for making loans to community news organizations.

The card network is examining how to make incentives more personal by using advanced technology to sift through a trove of consumer spending data.

Consumers who aren't proficient in English have long struggled to get help from banks in their preferred language. Banks and regulators are trying to fix that, but the solution has taken years.

The bank has agreed to acquire Big Data Healthcare, a Texan fintech that automates commercial payments flowing to and from hospitals and medical groups. It's the latest example of banks' deepening health care investments.

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The dataset, developed by Federal Reserve researchers, will give historians and students a far easier way to examine banks' performance between 1867 and 1904. The period was one of significant instability, which ultimately prompted the creation of the Fed.

The Dallas-based bank offered a more downbeat forecast than it did back in January, as rising rates have continued to put pressure on deposits.

Associate partner Mary Ann Francis is a risk taker — the kind who jumps off a waterfall without a parachute. She brings this same boldness to her work at IBM, where her decades of banking experience help the tech giant find new opportunities for artificial intelligence and quantum computing.