The nation's top financial regulator is asserting that Silicon Valley Bank's own management was largely to blame for the bank's failure. He said the Federal Reserve would also review whether a 2018 law that weakened stricter bank rules also contributed.
The Senate Banking Committee will hold the first formal congressional hearing Tuesday on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and New York-based Signature Bank and the shortcomings of supervision and regulation, by the Fed and other agencies, that preceded them. The committee will also likely question Barr and other officials, including its emergency decision to insure all the deposits at both banks, even as the vast majority exceeded the $250,000 limit.
Also sure to be debated will be whether the failures can be blamed, to some extent, on the 2018 softening of the stricter bank regulations that were enacted by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law. The two bank failures, Johnson said, suggest that banks with $100 billion to $250 billion in assets can pose a risk to the entire financial system. The reduction of rules for banks of that size was based on the idea that they didn’t pose a systemic risk.
In his prepared testimony, Barr also pledged that the Federal Reserve and other agencies would take whatever steps they deem necessary to protect depositors and the banking system. Regulators “are prepared to use all of our tools for any size institution, as needed, to keep the system safe and sound,” he said.Silicon Valley Bank and prevent its collapse, and Barr will likely face tough questioning by members of both parties.
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