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The Federal Reserve’s Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) will sunset as planned on March 11, ending a program that helped calm the markets after last year’s collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank threatened a...more
Recent Events in the Banking Industry - Developments in 2023 surrounding various financial institutions, including failures and a government-led merger, combined with changing macroeconomic conditions, have created...more
Besides being a shock to the market, the 2023 bank failures caused many to ask whether the federal banking agencies had done enough to prevent them. Precisely what the agencies should have done, or should do moving forward,...more
The spring of 2023 saw more dislocation in the global financial sector than any time since the 2008-09 financial crisis. In the US, banking institutions with over $500 billion in total assets failed, and other banks that were...more
A toxic combination of poor risk management and poor regulatory supervision proved fatal for Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and Signature Bank (“Signature”), according to a series of reports released on April 28, 2023 by federal...more
McDermott’s digital health team continually monitors legal developments affecting all aspects of the remote delivery of care. This inaugural issue of our Of Digital Interest Quarterly Roundup highlights key issues and trends...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) guarantees bank deposits of up to $250,000. Following the failure of two banks in recent weeks, regulators created some confusion among the industry and the public when they...more
Now is the Time to Guard Against Reckless Banking Legislation - “Only a structural change to the way Congress acts on financial regulation will prevent future losses.” Why this is important: An old adage is that...more
An old adage is that history will repeat itself. In other words, all of this has happened before, and it will all happen again. Another banking crisis is upon us following the familiar cycle of financial deregulation. The...more
The Cozen Lens- •As the dust settles on the most serious banking crisis since 2008, lawmakers and regulators are eying the policies, as well as the politics, necessary to restore stability to the banking system... ...more
Three years after the outbreak of COVID-19, restrictions have finally eased in Asia. However, investors in the region are still feeling its effects as well as headwinds caused by higher interest rates, rising inflation,...more
On March 17, 2023, the parent of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) filed for Chapter 11 protection in the Southern District of New York. Unlike SVB itself, its parent, as a bank holding company, was eligible for Chapter 11. In the...more
In the three days since federal authorities announced sweeping measures to protect depositors of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank and help prevent additional bank failures (as discussed in our update of March 12,...more
The fast and furious developments related to Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”), Signature Bank, and others had depositors, employees, landlords, lawyers, accountants, and fiduciaries from nearly every sector scrambling for...more
Below is a brief synopsis of the failures of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and Signature Bank, NA (“Signature Bank”) and the actions taken by the U.S. government in response to these failures. Silicon Valley Bank...more
Since Friday, March 10, 2023, more than 300 public companies have filed current reports on Form 8-K regarding the closure of Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB"). Company disclosure in these 8-Ks falls essentially into four...more
On Sunday evening, March 12, 2023, two extraordinary joint press releases were simultaneously issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The...more
In Cantero vs. Bank of America, N.A., mortgage borrowers are asking the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse a Second Circuit ruling that federally-chartered banks need not comply with state laws that require the...more
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the U.S.’s 16th largest bank, was closed on Friday, March 10, 2023, by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...more
On Friday, March 10, 2023, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation closed Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") was appointed SVB's receiver....more
On Friday, March 10, 2023, news broke of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States with $213 billion in assets reported as of December 2022. Soon after, on Sunday, March 12, Signature...more
US governmental authorities, including the US Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, took actions to provide both insured and uninsured...more
On March 10, 2023, volatility resulting from concerns regarding runs on certain banks triggered trading halts in those banks’ stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq. March 13, 2023, saw additional trading...more
On Monday, March 13, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) transferred all deposits and substantially all the assets of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”), formerly a California state chartered bank that was taken...more
Among America’s largest banks and formerly well-regarded by analysts, investors, and venture-backed companies alike, the sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent shockwaves through the venture capital and...more