Within three days 2nd bank in the US goes bankrupt !
New York – Followed by Silicon Valley Bank now Signature Bank in the US has been shut down. Signature Bank is one of the regional banks in the US. As of September, almost a quarter of Signature’s deposits came from the cryptocurrency sector, but the bank announced in December that it would shrink its crypto-related deposits by $8 billion.
State regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank on Sunday, just two days after California authorities shuttered Silicon Valley Bank, in a collapse that roiled global markets and stranded billions of dollars of deposits. @Nupursays has the story https://t.co/nJlMpfO9ku pic.twitter.com/X7GaFI06oX
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The US Treasury Department and other bank regulators said in a joint statement on Sunday that all depositors of Signature Bank will be made whole, and “no losses will be borne by the taxpayer.”
(Credit : ABC News)
New York banking regulators appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as the receiver for the later disposition of the bank’s assets. Signature Bank reported deposit balances totaling $89.17 billion as of 8th March.