Banks knock FDIC over growing tab for last year’s failures
By Polo Rocha
One year after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed in the span of three days, big banks are miffed about their growing tab from last March’s wild weekend. The gripes stem from decisions made between March 10-12, 2023, when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. stopped deposit runs by taking over the two banks and declaring a systemic risk exception to ensure that the vast quantities of uninsured deposits at those failed banks were covered….Karen Petrou, the co-founder of the consulting firm Federal Financial Analytics, said the $4 billion difference is a “very significant mistake” that calls into question the FDIC’s credibility in gauging the costliness of bank resolutions. “When an agency gets something this wrong, it’s not unreasonable for those picking up the tab to ask,” Petrou said. The agency has been gradually getting rid of certain assets that First Citizens Bank and New York Community Bancorp did not acquire when they bought many of the remnants of the two failed banks. First Citizens bought much of SVB, and New York Community acquired parts of Signature…
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