Nt is hosted by the brookings institution. David good morning, everybody im director of financial policy here at brookings. Id like to welcome you to this event, both the people in the room and people watching remotely. Our subject today is what lessons we have learned from the really interesting episodes of march, 2023,. A year ago the Global Financial system sthiferred most significant banking stress the Global Financial crisis of 20072008. As you all probably know, Silicon Valley bank failed prompting the fdic take it over in the middle of the day couldnt even wait until the weekend, which is really unusual. Its tempting to see this as a oneoff event. Silicon valley was, for want of a better term, unusual. Almost all its deposits were uninsured, it was woefully unprepared for an increase in Interest Rates, but it was followed by what some have called the panic of 20 if thenature bank and First Republic and oversea credit suisse. To arrest what u. S. Authorities feared was a spreadin
Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Were funded be by these Television Companies and were including buckeye broadband. Buckeye broadband supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other television provers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Republican congressman Patrick Mchenry of north carolina, chair of the House Financial Services committee, spoke about the collapses of Silicon Valley bank and Signature Bank last year, two of the largest Bank Failures in u. S. History. Congressman mchenry discussed the role of the Federal Reserve and federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Bank Regulation and Risk Management. Thisookings institution. Q3 david good morning, everybody, im director of financialhere a. Id like to welcome you to this event, both the people in the room and people watching remotely. Our subject today is what lessons we have learned from the really interesting episodes of march, 2023. A year ago the Global Financial system sthiferred most significant
Housing affairs will come to order. Thanks to the new deal and the hard work of our regulators today, most Bank Failures of course never a good thing or generally not a big deal but the quick collapses of Silicon Valley bank and Signature Bank were no ordinary failures. In less than a day, Silicon Valley Bank Customers pulled 42 billion dollars out of the bank fueled by Venture Capitalists and their social media accounts. They created the largest and fastest bank run in history in the following days Signature Bank lost 17 billion dollars. Regulators both republicans and democrats came to gather to prevent the panic from spreading. They increase liquidity, they promoted confidence in our Banking System, they protected deposits of customers and Small Businesses not notably the investors the investments of executives and shareholders. I spent that weekend on the phone with ohio Small Businesses and banks and credit unions. While Small Business owners simply wanted to make payroll. They di
Housing, in urban affairs will come to order. The days after the run on Silicon Valley bank, when it was close by the california banking regulators and taken over by the fdic many in washington, new york, in california asked, how did this bank and Signature Bank, soon after, failed so spectacularly . Was it the regulators falling down on the job . Was it new technology . The first social media fueled bank ran . How on earth could this happen . In ohio, the, no one is surprised by the hubris of coastal Bank Executives. The old adage has become cliche because it is so often true. The simplest explanation is best. It is first and foremost the bankers fault that the banks crashed. We know that federal and state banking officials repeatedly told managers and directors of your banks where there were problems, big problems the kind of problems you cant ignore. The tiny you have to start fixing right away. Bank executives did not listen. That is a well documented fact Silicon Valley banking si
state regulators wasting little time to take possession of silicon valley earlier today before a sudden cash crisis risks becoming a bigger one. then just as quickly reassuring investors their money was safe. the fdic taking control of silicon valley bank s deposits and letting customers know that they would have access to their funds by monday morning. it was all meant to avoid a run on the deposits and one that could spread. neither happened today. janet yellen said she was watching silicon and a few other banks she didn t name very carefully. other government officials stressing that silicon s case was very unique. in the case of silicon, it happened very fast after announcing a big loss on the bond holdings earlier this week. most of the bonds were bought long before the aggressive rate hikes that began almost a year ago. meaning those investments were underwear as bond prices declined and silicon was struck. today s strong employment report showing a bigger than expected