As banks topple, regulators face reckoning on week of mayhem

On Monday, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. warned a gathering of bankers in Washington about a $620 billion risk lurking in the U.S. financial system. By Friday, two banks had succumbed to it.

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