The Latest Breaking News from Silicon Valley Bank

The recent failures of a trio of midsize banks has once again raised questions on whether executive compensation is tilted toward short-term gains rather than companies' long-term health

This year's banking collapses have some striking parallels with the thousands of small bank failures that dotted the 1930s.

Jim Grant has been writing the “Interest Rate Observer” every week since 1983—and routinely making prescient predictions.

Trending videos with up to 200,000 likes show hands sorting wads of cash into various envelopes for safe-keeping. TikToks of bank deposits aren't hot right now.

The S&P 500 logged a weekly gain following the release of encouraging inflation data and a weaker-than-expected first-quarter.

He also revealed he is now refusing to invest any money into companies keeping cash with regional lenders.

US authorities are looking into whether big investment firms are targeting, or attacking, otherwise healthy banks to make a profit.

PacWest and Western Alliance were among the smaller lenders that saw shares tumble even as the banks sought to reassure their customers and investors..

Regional lenders such as PacWest and Western Alliance are not seen as systemically important and more consolidation is ahead

Bill Ackman, Nelson Peltz, and Jeffrey Gundlach all think the Fed is wrong about the banking system.

A crisis of confidence in the US banking sector led people to pull their money from banks including Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, and more recently, First Republic Bank and California-based PacWest Bancorp. The way these events have unfolded have created a new term in the vocabulary of finance:…