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Senate committee questions federal regulators over US bank crisis

Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr testifies at a Senate banking committee meeting on Tuesday in Washington, DC [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]

A leading official from the United States Federal Reserve has testified that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed to address vulnerabilities identified as early as November 2021, prompting one of the biggest bank failures in the country’s history.

Michael Barr, who oversees banking supervision for the Federal Reserve, appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday to discuss the conditions that prompted Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse earlier this month.

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