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Ivana Pino

What happens to your money if your bank fails, plus expert tips on protecting your money

Bank vault (Credit: Photo illustration by Fortune; Original photo by Getty Images)

New York-based Signature Bank is the most recent failure to make headlines in a string of collapses. This news came on the heels of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) downfall which happened just two days prior and marked the second-largest collapse in U.S. history, behind the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual.

With more than $110 billion in assets, Signature Bank is the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history. 

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