Fed blames Trump-era policies, SVB leaders — and itself — for bank’s stunning collapse

Fed blames Trump-era policies, SVB leaders — and itself — for bank’s stunning collapse

[ad_1] Those directives, combined with the Fed’s implementation of a bipartisan bank deregulation law passed by Congress in 2018, “impeded effective supervision by reducing standards, increasing complexity, and promoting a less assertive supervisory approach,” according to the report. “We must strengthen the Federal Reserve’s supervision and regulation based on what we have learned,” Barr said…

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‘Justified anger’: Senators target executives, regulators in SVB collapse

‘Justified anger’: Senators target executives, regulators in SVB collapse

[ad_1] Brown said the failure of SVB and Signature Bank earlier this month came down to “hubris, entitlement, greed.” “Once again, small businesses and workers feared they would pay the price for other people’s bad decisions,” Brown said. “And we’re left with many questions—and justified anger—toward bank executives and boards, toward venture capitalists, toward federal…

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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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