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Silicon slump? How worried should we be about another financial crisis?

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has raised the spectre of another financial crisis. As the contagion appears to be spreading, Samuel Fishwick investigates how spooked we should be feeling

Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2023

Conor Sen: What makes this economic slowdown different from the others?

We’ve been watching slumps ripple through various parts of the economy over the past 18 months: technology startups and stocks, regional banks and growing concern about commercial real estate. Yet we’re still waiting for the wider labor market to feel the downturn.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2023

Lex in depth: how safe are America’s regional banks?

After the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and others, the FT has analysed more than 100 institutions to identify those that are the biggest cause for concern

Financial Times · Mar 31, 2023

What bank CEOs should tell clients to reassure their money is safe

It’s up to bank CEOs to convince clients that their money is safe.

Fortune · Mar 30, 2023

Bipartisan group of senators offer clawback bill for bank failures

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators released draft legislation Wednesday that would claw back executive pay in the five years leading up to a bank’s failure, following President Joe Biden’s call on Congress to take action.

Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2023

The banking crisis was ‘not a systemic event,’ it only affected ‘dumb and greedy institutions,’ according to famed short seller Jim Chanos

Chanos pinned the blame for SVB's collapse on the bank's leadership, while arguing the bank's issues aren't widespread. But that doesn't mean stocks are safe, he warned.

Fortune · Mar 29, 2023

Fed’s Barr acknowledges oversight lapses before SVB failure

The Federal Reserve’s top bank regulator on Wednesday said that supervisors could have done more to keep tabs on Silicon Valley Bank before it collapsed earlier this month.

Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2023

Bipartisan group of senators offer clawback bill for bank failures - Roll Call

Four senators from both parties released a draft bill to claw back executive compensation in the five years leading up to a bank failure.

Roll Call · Mar 29, 2023

Jason Lee's last startup to launch in a month

Jason Lee's last startup was DailyPay, which raised over $1 billion, including $175 million in equity capital and the remainder in a revolving credit facility and a term loan. (SVB Capital, the venture capital and credit investment arm of SVB Financial Group, provided a small portion of the DailyPay term…

Fortune · Mar 29, 2023

SVB's newfangled failure fits a century-old pattern of bank runs, with a social media twist

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023, came as a shock to most Americans. Even people like myself, a scholar of the U.S. banking system who has worked at the Federal Reserve, didn’t expect SVB’s collapse.

The Conversation · Mar 29, 2023