Deposits

When U.S. banks fell like dominoes during the Great Depression, the cause was often a classic run: Depositors withdrew cash en masse amid fears that lenders were amassing huge losses on bad loans and investments. The cryptocurrency era just put a new twist on that.

At the start of 2022, banks sat atop a flood of deposits. But as the year progressed, they faced greater pressure to pay higher rates, and the trends that drove the rapid shift show no signs of abating.

The agency is needlessly raising banks' costs at a time of severe economic uncertainty.

While Silvergate said this month it has "a resilient balance sheet and ample liquidity," and analysts call its financials sound, the bank is today contending with a question as difficult as the one that led it to crypto in the first place: whether the experiment was worth it.

After focusing its de novo branching plans on the Carolinas in recent years, the Cincinnati-based bank is ready to shift its attention to Florida and — eventually — to Nashville and Atlanta.

The Connecticut bank plans to add interLINK to its diverse stable of deposit-gathering businesses. A community bank in Texas had previously reached a deal to purchase the platform, but that transaction fell apart in September.

Seattle Bank built CD Valet to be an unbiased resource for top certificate of deposit rates that cannot be influenced by advertising dollars.

Protecting depositors' stablecoin holdings could be the difference between providing the economy with a new boost and creating unnecessary drag.

The Federal Reserve's campaign to tighten financial conditions has resulted in notably increased borrowing by U.S. banks at the central bank's discount window, normally a last-resort funding source.