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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

SVB cash crunch highlights $620 billion hole in banks’ balance sheets

SVB Financial CEO Greg Becker is raising cash to plug a hole in his balance sheet. (Credit: Luke MacGregor—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Martin Gruenberg could not have picked a more prescient time to flag risks in the U.S. banking industry.

On Monday, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)—the agency that backstops depositors—addressed risks U.S. lenders faced three years after the outbreak of the pandemic. Chief among them was the potential for a bank run. 

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