a top republican has accused us regulators of being asleep at the wheel in the period leading up to the implosion of silicon valley bank. those comments in the first of two bruising congressional hearings intended to shed light on the failings that led to the lender s collapse. in response, the regulator pointed the finger at executives saying they did a terrible job of managing risk. we are still reconstructing the supervisory racket, we understand they were issued a matter requiring attention based on the inaccuracy of their interest rate risk modelling. essentially, the risk model was not at all aligned with reality. today, the hearing continues. the collapse of svb and signature bank created shock waves across the global banking sector, with central bankers moving to reassure nations that the structural integrity of the financial system remains intact. joining me now is greg feldberg, director of research for the yale program on financial stability. you were director
Banks with between $50 billion and $250 billion of assets leaned particularly heavily on the Federal Reserve and the Federal Home Loan banks amid deposit outflows in March and April, according to new research that quantifies the scramble for funding.
bankers moving to reassure nations that the structural integrity of the financial system remains intact. joining me now is greg feldberg, director of research for the yale program on financial stability. you were director of research at the commission, established by congress to investigate the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. are we, in your view, on the edge of another 2008 style precipice? ido i do not, i think this is a very different situation we are in right now. there is a lot of uncertainty out there, where do we go from here? right now it is a very different situation we have the credit risk which brought us down 15 years ago is not what we are talking about in the financial system right now, we are talking about something which could be manageable interest rate risk
Yale’s Sigrídur Benediktsdottir and Greg Feldberg recently led an in-depth assessment of the UK’s systemic risk oversight as part of the IMF’s Financial Sector Assessment Program. They came away with new insights into one of the world’s leading models for managing financial system risk.