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U.S. regulator cites 'terrible' risk management for Silicon Valley Bank failure

Interest rate risk model 'not at all aligned with reality,' Fed official tells senators

The failures of SVB and, days later, Signature Bank, have set off a broader loss of investor confidence in the banking sector.    © Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A top U.S. regulator told a Senate panel on Tuesday that Silicon Valley Bank did a "terrible" job of managing risk before its collapse, fending off criticism from lawmakers who blamed bank watchdogs for missing warning signs.

In the first congressional hearing into the sudden collapse of two U.S. regional lenders and the ensuing chaos in markets, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers pressed the Federal Reserve's top banking regulator on whether the central bank should have been more aggressive in its oversight of SVB.

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