Congress cools on post-SVB banking overhaul

Congress cools on post-SVB banking overhaul

[ad_1] It’s a void that’s left lawmakers all over the place, with at least one key leader — House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry — signaling that he’s wary about making changes to the cap. “We’ve gone from the overreaction to a period of time where we’re thinking it through,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said…

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Hill frustrations simmer over banking chief

Hill frustrations simmer over banking chief

[ad_1] “Throughout the course of that weekend I was inundated with phone calls telling me legitimate bidders were being waved off,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) told Gruenberg. “If ideology had anything to do with this, this committee is going to be deeply concerned about that.” For many Republicans, the conflict goes far beyond how Gruenberg…

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Yellen seeks to calm lawmakers amid banking turmoil

Yellen seeks to calm lawmakers amid banking turmoil

[ad_1] The Biden administration’s Sunday rescue plan for the Northern California bank’s customers, along with those of Signature — a New York institution that was shuttered that day — were essential for stemming a possible contagion that put “community banks across the country at great risk of runs,” Yellen said. In her prepared testimony, the…

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The crypto ‘contagion’ that helped bring down SVB

The crypto ‘contagion’ that helped bring down SVB

[ad_1] As U.S. banking regulators begin their post-mortem of Silicon Valley Bank, some pundits are pointing the finger at crypto markets, whose own collapse over the past year left the tech-focused lender hopelessly exposed. The conventional wisdom about crypto is that it’s “self-referential” — a separate universe to conventional finance — and that its inherent…

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How Biden saved Silicon Valley startups: Inside the 72 hours that transformed U.S. banking

How Biden saved Silicon Valley startups: Inside the 72 hours that transformed U.S. banking

[ad_1] The result, announced just minutes before financial markets in Asia reopened, was sweeping: The federal government would provide SVB’s depositors with access to all their funds, effectively averting painful financial uncertainty — and the threat of heavy losses — for thousands of venture-backed startups. Signature Bank, which had followed SVB into insolvency, would receive…

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