Senators derided SVB's former CEO Gregory Becker at a hearing about the reasons for the failure of his bank. “It sounds a lot like ‘my dog ate my homework,’” one said

As part of its deal, all 84 First Republic branches in eight states – including  seven in Santa Clara County, 15 in San Francisco, six in San Mateo County, eight in the East Bay and 17 in Southern California – will reopen this morning as JPMorgan branches.

A Sunday night deadline loomed as JPMorgan and PNC were said to be interested in acquiring the troubled lender after it is seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The Federal Reserve released hundreds of pages documenting how bank supervision and regulation failed to prevent the lender’s painful collapse. The F.D.I.C. released a separate report on Signature Bank’s failure.

The April 21 downgrading of the credit ratings of 11 regional banks by Moody’s raised new doubts about their stability, while their leaders said the turmoil spurred by last month’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has passed.

Federal regulators blame banks' poor management, while U.S. Senators this week sharply questioned oversight after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures rattled the financial system.

The picture that is emerging of SVB is one of a bank whose leaders failed to plan for a realistic future and neglected looming financial and operational problems, even as they were raised by Fed supervisors.

The shockwaves and aftershocks of the failure of one bank are likely to linger for years, and these tremors will likely change the way companies are built in the future.

Moody’s downgraded the credit rating of six regional banks, including the holding company of San Jose’s Bridge Bank.

The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced in a joint statement Sunday that all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13, and that none of these costs will be paid by U.S. taxpayers.

For a scheme with such potentially devastating consequences on schools and local governments, it’s garnered surprisingly little attention.

Locally run public banks would be able to lend at reduced rates to our small businesses, cities, counties and school districts.