
Claire Williams covers banking policy matters on Capitol Hill. She previously wrote about financial and economic policy for Morning Consult and earlier had stints at S&P Global and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Claire Williams covers banking policy matters on Capitol Hill. She previously wrote about financial and economic policy for Morning Consult and earlier had stints at S&P Global and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
The rules President Joe Biden calls for include minimizing the financial burden that replenishing the Deposit Insurance Fund would impose on community banks.
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Michael Barr said that regulators and bank management failures contributed to the bank collapses, but insisted rescue of uninsured deposits was warranted.
The incentive structures for both banks and large, sophisticated depositors have changed because of federal regulators' decision to guarantee the uninsured deposits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says it has extended the deadline for bids on Silicon Valley Bank, will break the bank into two parts for sale and will allow nonbanks to bid on asset portfolios.
Flagstar Bank, a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, will buy most of failed Signature Bank, but it's not taking Singature's digital-assets business as part of the deal.
President Biden asked that Congress pass measures that would expand the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s ability to claw back compensation from the executives of failed banks, among other measures.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen took the first step of walking back an implicit guarantee by the U.S. government that other banks would see their depositors fully backstopped should the bank fail.
The Arkansas congressman, a leading Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, said while he doesn't believe blanket expanding deposit insurance is warranted, different premium structures for covering deposits would be "worthwhile."
Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, says she's confident some of the issues surrounding the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank will require legislation.
President Joe Biden said that deposits at U.S. banks are safe following swift action from his administration's bank regulators.
The Treasury Department issued a "systemic risk exception" allowing it to cover uninsured deposits at SVB and Signature Bank, which New York State closed on Sunday.
The bank's tech-sector focus contributed to its rapid demise. But the reasons for its failure come down to the nuts and bolts of banking, and other banks may have similar vulnerabilities.
In a subcommittee hearing on the CFPB, Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., sought to dismiss "sky is falling" concerns about other agencies' funding structures being questioned in wake of potential Supreme Court decision.
For some political strategists, rising economic populism in the Republican party could mean that more financial services firms could face more political risk.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg said that the rise of hybrid and remote work, alongside rising interest rates, could be creating lingering risk in the maturity of some bank loans.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson said that Federal Home Loan Banks benefit from the implied guarantee of the U.S. government.
Sens. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Katie Britt, R-Ala., take seats on the Senate Banking Committee.
The group, led by Senate Banking Chairman Sen. Sherrod Brown, said nonperforming loans sold to single family housing rental businesses or private equity firms results in the displacement of homeowners.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and John Kennedy, R-La., asked Silvergate if the bank knew about FTX's alleged misuse of customer funds.
Repo markets and the bank deposit business, in particular, would be upended if the U.S. were to default on its debt, experts say.