Factbox: Red flags galore – Fed officials cited Silicon Valley Bank 31 times

(Reuters) – At the time of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the number of outstanding safety and soundness warnings from Federal Reserve bank supervisors had mushroomed to three times the average for a bank its size, according to a report released on Friday. Below is a timeline of those 31 “matters requiring attention” or “matters requiring…

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Wall St ends higher, posts weekly, monthly gains on solid earnings, Fed pause hopes

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rallied to a higher close on Friday and benchmark Treasury yields dipped at the end of a week marked by strong earnings, wrapping up a solid month with data confirming inflation is cooling, which could allow the Federal Reserve to pause after next week’s expected rate…

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White House: Fed report on SVB reinforces need for regulatory, supervisory reforms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve Board’s independent review of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse reinforces the need for “the commonsense regulatory and supervisory reforms” that President Joe Biden has advocated, White House spokesperson Michael Kikukawa said on Friday. “The weakening of safeguards and supervision for large regional banks in the previous administration should be reversed…

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U.S. engineers recommended grounding Boeing 737 MAX soon after second crash – report

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Some Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) engineers recommended grounding the Boeing 737 MAX in March 2019 after a second fatal crash and before the agency took action, a report released Friday said. The Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General said in a report that its review of emails and interviews of…

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Supervisory staff shortages come into focus in Fed, FDIC reviews of failed banks

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Among the key findings revealed on Friday in the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp assessments of the causes of last month’s two huge U.S. bank failures, one major oversight deficiency stood out: Neither has enough bodies for the job. Staffing shortages strained supervisory resources, particularly at the FDIC’s…

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