WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said regulators may need to tighten banking rules after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, arguing that the recent turmoil is a sign that efforts to strengthen the financial system are incomplete. Speaking at an economic conference on Thursday, Ms Yellen questioned whether the regulatory system she helped … Read more
Wall Street’s average bonus fell 26% last year, the biggest percentage drop since the financial crisis, as a trading slump slashed bankers’ pay. Financial employees received average bonus checks of $176,000 last year, up from a record high of $240,000 a year earlier, the New York state comptroller’s office said in a report Thursday. The … Read more
Mr Ermotti led UBS for nine years until 2020 and is credited with restoring the bank to health after a government bailout in 2008. He will succeed current CEO Ralph Hamers, who heads the bank, on April 5. for three years. “We felt we had a better horse” in Mr. Ermotti, UBS Chairman Colm Kelleher … Read more
Sergio Ermotti will replace current CEO Ralph Hamers, who is expected to remain at UBS to advise the bank during the transition period to ensure a smooth transfer, UBS said in a statement Wednesday. The move will be effective April 5, UBS said in a statement. Ermotti was CEO of UBS Group for nine years, … Read more
Banks for the wealthy are different from other banks. Before, they had more money. The latest banking crisis featured subprime borrowers, especially people with credit problems who were granted mortgages by bankers who were unaware of the risk that borrowers might not be able to pay them. The banks which had problems were those which … Read more
Regional banks shouldn’t be the only cause for concern over the potential fallout from the rapid pace of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes over the past year, a former top banking regulator said. “I don’t see regional banks as having a particular problem,” said Sheila Bair, who ran the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. from 2006 … Read more
Good morning! Welcome to Distributed Ledger. Meet Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. Coinbase crypto exchange PIECE OF MONEY said Wednesday that he received a Wells notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which could lead to formal charges. The SEC’s Wells notice related to an unspecified portion of the exchange’s listed digital assets, its … Read more
Bank of the First Republic FRC 29.47% bolsters its advisory ranks as the troubled lender seeks to stay afloat and plan for a post-crisis future amid a transatlantic crisis of confidence in the banking system. The California bank this week typed Lazard ltd. LAZ 3.23% to assist in the consideration of strategic options which could … Read more
The turmoil unleashed by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse demolished much of what the Federal Reserve, political leaders and investors thought they had learned from the 2007-09 global financial crisis. They assumed that complex securities, too-big-to-fail banks, and obscure, poorly regulated lenders were the weak links in the system. Instead, the weak links were its … Read more
Discussions, though preliminary, have focused on how the industry could arrange an investment that would increase the bank’s capital, according to people familiar with the matter. Among the options on the table, people said, is investment in the First Republic by the banks themselves. Eleven major banks banded together last week to deposit $30 billion … Read more
