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Lenders had started tightening as early as the fourth quarter in anticipation of a possible recession. Now, the banking crisis is driving community and regional banks in particular to hit the brakes harder, stoking renewed recessions fears.

Fintech funding was drying up before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Capital and Signature Bank. The banking crisis has set it back a bit further.

Diversity, equity and inclusion has only grown in importance to the financial services industry over the last few years. For that reason, DEI philosophies are becoming a bigger concern as buyers and sellers try to determine how their corporate cultures might mesh.

Brian Graham, partner and co-founder of advisory and investment firm Klaros Group, breaks down what went wrong with Silvergate Capital, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and what banks can do to avoid the problems that brought these banks down.

Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr will attempt to downplay the immediate threat of the banking crisis as limited to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, while calling for long-term reforms in congressional testimony this week.

The unusual financing is meant to help First Citizens meet liquidity needs that arise in the next two years as it integrates SVB into its operations, the Raleigh, North Carolina, lender said in a regulatory filing.

Unrealized losses on the company's balance sheet ballooned to more than $29 billion last year. At the same time, higher interest rates are encouraging customers to move their cash out of certain accounts that underpin Schwab's business.

Early Warning Services' upcoming bank wallet will go live in June with certain merchants, supported by EWS's seven large-banks owners, representing 150 million Visa and Mastercard accounts.

With the acquisitions of CIT Group and a large portion of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, the North Carolina company has doubled in size for the second time in a little more than a year and joined the class of super regionals.

Deal supply remains relatively strong in the sector, but new originations still face a scarcity of new assets to roll into the deals.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to issue a small business data collection rule this week, more than a decade after it was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act to collect data on all small business credit applicants.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg said in prepared testimony that the agency is looking at adjusting capital treatment for unrealized losses and resolution requirements for midsize banks.

Silicon Valley Bank and its customers favored the simplicity and convenience of eschewing deposit insurance coverage despite the risks. Some experts say regulators' decision to make depositors whole might be sending the industry the wrong message.

The beleaguered sector hopes machine learning will reduce the odds of defaults and delinquencies.

The banks invested in bonds at a time when rates were low, and their value has since dropped substantially. While there appears to be very little risk that the banks will ever have to realize the losses, an American Banker data analysis raises questions about whether regulators should toughen their monitoring of interest rate risk.

First Citizens BancShares in North Carolina has entered into a purchase and assumption agreement for all deposits and loans of the failed bank, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. About $90 billion of securities and other assets will remain in receivership.

Companies like U.S. Bancorp have found ways to apply the information they use to serve thin-file applicants to small-business owners and other borrowers.

The use of the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facilities was largely unchanged this week, indicating to some that the recent liquidity crisis isn't getting any worse.

A long-dormant executive compensation rule required by Dodd-Frank is a more promising means of achieving President Biden's call for consequences for the executives of failed banks than legislation, experts say.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and others on the Banking Committee have requested CAMELS scores for the failed bank and various other supervisory information from the Fed.