No banks are safe (bail ins, FDIC limits, systemic risks)

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Kitco report has a few more details on Barney Frank's assertion:
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As it stands now, Signature Bank’s customers have automatically become customers of the FDIC-controlled Signature Bridge Bank. Regulators will proceed to sell the bank and its assets in the coming days, which will provide additional insight into how serious the problem actually was, according to Frank.

"What's the sale price?” Frank said. “If it's got to be sold at a very severe discount, well, maybe that shows there were problems with Signature. If it's sold at a better price, which I think it will be, that's proof of our argument that they shut down Signature as a general warning shot against crypto rather than anything that was Signature's fault."
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Regulators shut down Signature to send the message that crypto is toxic - Barney Frank

Former congressman Barney Frank says that regulators shut down Signature Bank in an effort to send the message that crypto is toxic.
www.kitco.com
 
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The gap between the U.S. three-month forward rate agreement (FRA) and the overnight index swap rate (OIS), also known as the FRA-OIS spread, a measure of how costly it is for banks to borrow U.S. dollars from one another, surged to 54.00, the highest since March 2020, according to data source MacroMicro.

The borrowing and lending between banks is a crucial component of the banking system that helps banks manage their immediate liquidity needs. When the interbank lending market is strained or dysfunctional, banks face greater liquidity risk, which can result in insolvency.

So, the sharp rise in the FRA-OIS spread is a sign of the system reaching a point of vulnerability. That strengthens the case for the Fed to pause its rate hike cycle at next week's meeting or opt for a smaller 25 basis points move instead of the 50 bps raise expected last week. ...
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www.coindesk.com

Bitcoin Nears $25K as Interbank Funding Stress Indicator Surges to Highest Level Since COVID Crash

Banking sector stress strengthens the case for Fed pause next week. Likely beneficiaries from the financial stress are gold and bitcoin, one observer said.
www.coindesk.com www.coindesk.com
 
Looks to me like they've taken down a couple of the corrupt banks. Interesting, while still trying to insure deposits.
 
Voodoo said:
Looks to me like they've taken down a couple of the corrupt banks. Interesting, while still trying to insure deposits.
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Politically-correct customers.

VC outfits; tech startups (staffed with Woketards) and individuals (Woked-up) on the coasts.

Equally Woked-up morons and criminals were running them...but the Elites must be PROTECTED. And people must SEE...they're protected.

So the contagion seems to be stopped. Until the next spark...
 

Banking History​

Glass Steagall Act​

The Glass-Steagall Act, part of the Banking Act of 1933, was landmark banking legislation that separated Wall Street from Main Street by offering protection to people who entrust their savings to commercial banks. Millions of Americans lost their jobs in the Great Depression, and one in four lost their life savings after more than 4,000 U.S. banks shut down between 1929 and 1933, leaving depositors with nearly $400 million in losses. The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited bankers from using depositors’ money to pursue high-risk investments, but the act was effectively undercut by looser restrictions in the deregulatory environment of the 1980s and 1990s.
As the Great Depression of the 1930s devastated the U.S. economy, many blamed the economic meltdown in part on financial-industry shenanigans and loose banking regulations.
U.S. Senator Carter Glass, a Democrat from Virginia, first introduced the legislation in January 1932, and the bill was co-sponsored by Democratic Alabama Representative Henry Steagall.
By June 16, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Glass-Steagall Act into law as part of a series of measures adopted during his first 100 days to restore the country’s economy and trust in its banking systems.

FDIC Created​

The Glass-Steagall Act set up a firewall between commercial banks, which accept deposits and issue loans, and investment banks that negotiate the sale of bonds and stocks.
The Banking Act of 1933 also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which protected bank deposits up to $2,500 at the time (now up to $250,000 as a result of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010).
As the bill stated, it was designed “to provide for the safer and more effective use of the assets of banks, to regulate interbank control, to prevent the undue diversion of funds into speculative operations, and for other purposes.”

Alan Greenspan and Bank Deregulation​

Starting in the 1970s, large banks began to push back on the Glass-Steagall Act’s regulations, claiming they were rendering them less competitive against foreign securities firms.
The argument, embraced by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, was that if banks were permitted to engage in investment strategies, they could increase the return for their banking customers while avoiding risk by diversifying their businesses.
Soon, several banks began crossing the line once established by the Glass–Steagall Act through loopholes in the act. For example, the act stipulated that while a Federal Reserve member bank could not deal in securities, a bank could affiliate with a company that did as long as that company that was not “engaged principally” in such activities.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act​

One of the most prominent deals that exploited this loophole was the 1998 merger of banking giant Citicorp with Travelers Insurance, which owned the now-defunct investment bank Salomon Smith Barney.
One year later, President Bill Clinton signed the Financial Services Modernization Act, commonly known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley, which effectively neutralized Glass-Steagall by repealing key components of the act.
President Clinton said the legislation would “enhance the stability of our financial services system” by permitting financial firms to “diversify their product offerings and thus their sources of revenue” and make financial firms “better equipped to compete in global financial markets.”

Great Recession Strikes​

Some economists point to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as a key factor leading to the housing market bubble and subsequent Great Recession, the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

Sources​



www.history.com

Glass‑Steagall Act

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Dodd–Fwank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act​

July 21, 2010
Law

Pub. L. No. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376, codified in relevant part at 12 U.S.C. § 5301, §§ 5481-5603, and in laws amended (Title X); and 12 U.S.C. § 5481 note, 15 U.S.C. § 1601 note, § 1602, and § 1631 et seq. (Title XIV)
Links
http://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/111/203.pdf

Title X of this Act creates a new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection within the Federal Reserve Board as a new supervisor for certain financial firms and as a rulemaker and enforcer against unfair, deceptive, abusive, or otherwise prohibited practices relating to most consumer financial products or services. The Act transfers most of the FTC’s rulemaking authority and one study requirement to the Bureau but the FTC retains all of its enforcement authority and some rulemaking authority.

The Act further provides for FTC/Bureau coordination regarding certain rulemaking and enforcement activities. The Act provides authority for each agency to enforce some of the other’s rules with respect to consumer financial practices. The Act also authorizes FTC rulemaking for certain motor vehicle dealers under standard Administrative Procedure Act procedures rather than the procedures set forth in the FTC Act.

In addition, the Act amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (a) to provide for limitations on interchange transaction fees; (b) to prohibit exclusive payment networks and routing restrictions for debit cards; (c) to limit the restrictions that credit and debit card networks may impose on retailers regarding discounts or transaction amount limits based on form of payment, and (d) to provide standards for remittance fee practices. It also provides for improved financial disclosures, including integration of mortgage disclosures under the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

Title XIV of the Act amends the Truth in Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and other consumer financial laws to prevent mortgage-related abuses and to improve availability of responsible, affordable mortgage credit. It addresses compensation-based incentives; inappropriate steering, discrimination, and other abusive, unfair, deceptive, or predatory practices; minimum federal lending standards; high-cost mortgages; mortgage servicing; and appraisals. Title XIV provides a new enforcement role for the FTC regarding home appraisals.

www.ftc.gov

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Titles X and XIV

Title X of this Act creates a new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection within the Federal Reserve Board as a new supervisor for certain financial firms and as a rulemaker and enforcer against un
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Casey Jones said:
VC outfits; tech startups (staffed with Woketards) and individuals (Woked-up) on the coasts.
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In my opinion, the VCs have always been low intelligence fools who were not investors, but gamblers. They spent their money and their investors' on stupid ventures that value investors would reject as ... shitty.

I did have a brief encounter with a VC, and he was a shit head. I hope he lost his wad on his deal for video advertisement devices on shopping carts.
 

BIDEN CRISIS: Moody’s Downgrades Banking Segment to “Negative”, Assets in US Banks Are $2 Trillion LESS than Their Balances​

By Joe Hoft
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Biden couldn’t have done a better job destroying the US economy if he tried.

Earlier today, Moody’s dropped its rating for the Banking SEGMENT from stable to negative. This was a huge event that those in the banking and finance areas know is a very big deal.

DEVELOPING: Moody’s Cuts Outlook For Entire US Banking Sector, Puts Six Banks on ‘Downgrade’ Watch
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Moody’s doesn’t downgrade entire segments without much thought and discussion on the matter.

CNBC reported:

“We have changed to negative from stable our outlook on the US banking system to reflect the rapid deterioration in the operating environment following deposit runs at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank (SNY) and the failures of SVB and SNY,” Moody’s said in a report.
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Moody’s rating was reported this morning on the War Room where Steve Cortes reported that Moody’s downgraded the banking segment due to a “rapidly deteriorating operating environment”:

more
www.thegatewaypundit.com

BIDEN CRISIS: Moody's Downgrades Banking Segment to "Negative", Assets in US Banks Are $2 Trillion LESS than Their Balances

www.thegatewaypundit.com www.thegatewaypundit.com
 

Collapse of U.S. banks: There is one 'common theme,' says investment advisory firm​

Mar 15, 2023


Ram Ahluwalia of Lumida Wealth discusses the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Silvergate Bank. 3:50
 
nickndfl said:
If you think a bank bailout is bad wait until they do a bail-in where the bank confiscates a portion of you deposits and gives you worthless bank stock in return. LOL
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Maybe you will be be reimbursed with a shiny new cbdc.
 
I’m very disappointed to learn, apparently, the Department of Financial Services in New York, which did the closing, hasn’t said we were insolvent! They said, well, they had a problem, because they couldn’t get sufficient data. I mean, I was disappointed when they closed it, and sort of vindicated — they have not argued that we were insolvent. And I think it’s very clear if we had the benefit of those two announcements, we’d still be an ongoing bank.

Now, the question is, why did they react so harshly to what they said was our inability to give them the sufficient data? I believe it was probably to send the message that even though we were doing crypto stuff responsibly, they don’t want banks doing crypto. They denied that in their statement, but I don’t fully believe that. I think that they overreacted to what they saw was our problem with data, which may well have existed, but the data was improving. I think sloppy data is not a reason to close a bank that you have not decided was insolvent, and they’ve never said we were insolvent.

I mean, is that even legal? Can the government just seize any bank, even if it’s not insolvent?
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nymag.com

Barney Frank Talks More About the Surprise Shuttering of Signature Bank

“I was sort of vindicated — they have not argued that we were insolvent,” says the author of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Is The US Banking System Safe? ...15 Years Later

With the recent implosion of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the largest bank failures since 2008, I had an overwhelming feeling of deja vu. I wrote the article Is the U.S. Banking System Safe on August 3, 2008 for the Seeking Alpha website, one month before the collapse of the global financial system. It was this article, among others, that caught the attention of documentary filmmaker Steve Bannon and convinced him he needed my perspective on the financial crisis for his film Generation Zero. Of course he was pretty unknown in 2009 (not so much anymore) , and I continue to be unknown in 2023.


The Silver Bear Cafe

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I was looking at Jamie Dimon's history on Wiki-puke-ia...wanted a detail or two, but I fell down the rabbit hole, as happens.

Dimon came onboard JPMC from Banc One, the parent company of Bank One (state) all over the nation.

Bank One, emerged from a Columbus, Ohio, regional...which was fighting "Depression-Era restrictive branch-banking laws in Ohio (Wiki's claim)."

I recall that period, as a teen and young adult in Ohio. Branch banking over county lines was prohibited. That meant there were well over a hundred banks in the state, all of them relatively small, locally focused.

The first legal battle the predecessor to Bank One won, was the legal ability to set up holding companies that would own various county banks. Hence they went on a buying spree, mostly rural banks, and organized them under Banc One Corporation.

Later loosening, enabled banks to combine assets and be absorbed into out-of-county banks. Bank One became a huge Ohio bank.

And then, of course, further loosening on the Federal level, with Bank One buying small banks in 20 states. And it all ended with Chase, resurrected after a near-collapse by JP Morgan...JPMC buying Banc One.

From a small Franklin County bank, to this monolith that dictates social mores, prevents competition in matters such as SD boxes, and has gone Woke.

Yeah. We need to re-examine the decentralized system given us with what Wiki calls "Depression-Era" regulation.
 
What else would you expect? Everything Woke turns to (pejorative).

Ma Yellin is part of Team Obombah. They never saw a bad idea they didn't just LUUV...
 
Seems to me she is saying, if the depositors or share holders of the bank are wealthy marxist, have ties to the CCP or part of the Democratic money laundry system you will be made whole. If your bank is in a rural conservative community your limit is $250k and you will pay higher fees for the bailout of the preferred bank.
 
Things must be worse than is being reported by the state run media. I got an email from my local bank assuring me everything fine.




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Irons said:
Things must be worse than is being reported by the state run media. I got an email from my local bank assuring me everything fine.




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Hey Irons...............just a thought but you had some pretty good threads going on gim2. Your metal detecting, hunting blind and atv threads were great. They would be a welcome addition here if you're interested.
 
Irons said:
... I got an email from my local bank assuring me everything fine.
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That's the kind of warm fuzzies that helps people and businesses with uninsured deposits sleep well at night!
 
Irons said:
Things must be worse than is being reported by the state run media. I got an email from my local bank assuring me everything fine.




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The local US Bank had new CD signs paying over 4%, more than US Treasuries. Their stock also tanked Friday. This is gonna be ugly.
 
Voodoo said:
. This is gonna be ugly.
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It has to be.


How else are they gonna be able to force their cbdc down everyone's throat, if it doesn't get incredibly ugly first? They'll want it to look like a gleaming palace on a hill, in comparison.
 
Joe King said:
It has to be.


How else are they gonna be able to force their cbdc down everyone's throat, if it doesn't get incredibly ugly first? They'll want it to look like a gleaming palace on a hill, in comparison.
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Forcing CBDCs on the public, will be about like forcing the Jab on the public.

EVEN IF they accept it initially...it will tear society apart, and destroy one-half the economy - the half that contain entertainment, travel, discretionary energy use, such as boating...it will enrage the public as they're limited in meat and fuel purchases.

It will completely destroy motivation - and THAT...WILL cause a collapse.
 
Joe King said:
It has to be.


How else are they gonna be able to force their cbdc down everyone's throat, if it doesn't get incredibly ugly first? They'll want it to look like a gleaming palace on a hill, in comparison.
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Instant black market.
 
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