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Scott Horsley

The Fed admits some of the blame for Silicon Valley Bank's failure in scathing report

A security guard at Silicon Valley Bank monitors a line of people outside the office in Santa Clara, Calif., on March 13, 2023. The Fed admitted it was partly to blame for the collapse of the lender in a scathing report on Friday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The Federal Reserve says its own light-touch approach to bank regulation is partly to blame for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month, and it promised more vigorous oversight in the future.

In a scathing 114-page report, the Fed says its own supervisors were slow to grasp the extent of the problems at Silicon Valley Bank, and when problems were identified, supervisors failed to move aggressively enough to ensure those problems were fixed.

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