Depositors tried to pull more than $42 billion in a single day at SVB in early March, surprising regulators and kicking off deposit flight across other regional banks. The failures of SVB, and days later, Signature Bank, set off a broader loss of investor confidence in the banking sector that pummeled stocks and stoked fears of a full-blown financial crisis. Barr has criticized SVB for going months without a chief risk officer and for how it modeled interest rate risk, but some lawmakers
have questioned
whether the Fed was aggressive enough in its supervision of
the bank.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is also slated to
publish a report detailing its supervision of Signature Bank as
well as an overview of the deposit insurance system by May 1.
(Reporting by Hannah Lang and Ann Saphir; Editing by Aurora
Ellis)