First Republic Bank has been seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase in a bid to contain the second-largest bank failure in US history.
The San Francisco-based bank is the third to fail in two months; it had been struggling since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank spooked investors who grew increasingly worried over its high amount of uninsured deposits and exposure to low-interest-rate loans.
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