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Former FDIC chair on bank collapses

NPR
Published March 14, 2023 at 12:06 PM EDT
A sign is displayed outside an office building housing a branch of Signature Bank. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)
A sign is displayed outside an office building housing a branch of Signature Bank. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)

Here & Now‘s Robin Young hears from Sheila Bair, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Bair also told us she is on the board of a cryptocurrency firm that did business with Signature Bank.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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