The worry is the collapse of SVB and Signature Bank are just the start of a longer list of casualties from the Fed’s shift to the highest rates since policymakers began slashing borrowing costs in 2007.
President Joe Biden insisted Monday that the nation’s banking system was safe, seeking to project calm after the collapse of two banks stirred fears of a broader upheaval and prompted regulators to offer emergency loans to banks to stave off additional failures.
Town of Speedway leaders are pumping the brakes on a proposed $2.5 million loan to help pay for the long-delayed Wilshaw hotel project after learning that one of the companies involved wasn’t forthcoming about federal fines for past business dealings.
In a sign of how fast the financial bleeding was occurring, regulators announced that New York-based Signature Bank had also failed and was being seized on Sunday.
The run was precipitated by the Federal Reserve’s boosting its benchmark federal funds rate seven times last year, taking it from near 0% to a range of 4.25% to 4.5% in an effort to reduce inflation.
The bank failed after depositors—mostly technology workers and venture capital-backed companies—began withdrawing their money and created a run on the bank.
Ousted CEO Jim Dickson founded Sanctuary in 2018 after the firm acquired Indianapolis-based David A. Noyes & Co., which in 2020 changed its name to Sanctuary Securities Inc.
SoFi Bank argues the moratorium has no legal basis and has cost the bank, known for its refinancing business, millions of dollars in profits.
The insurance holding company says all of its systems are back online following the Feb. 9 discovery of a ransomware attack that affected several of its subsidiary firms. But it hasn’t yet said how many individuals might have be affected by the attack.
U.S. central bankers are waging their most aggressive action against high inflation in a generation.
Stifel is suing a newly-formed competitor firm, Sapient Capital, alleging that Sapient conducted an “orchestrated raid” of Stifel’s 96th Street office, convincing nearly all the employees to jump ship and attempting to bring their clients and their $10 billion in assets with them. Sapient characterizes the situation differently.
The upscale hotel project across from Indianapolis Motor Speedway has gone through numerous delays since being announced in 2015. A new developer took over in late 2021 but has yet to restart construction.
The share of homes bought without mortgages in the United States is now at levels not seen since 2014, when the housing market was on the rebound after the foreclosure crisis and the Great Recession.
Jerome Powell’s remarks followed the government’s blockbuster report last week that employers added 517,000 jobs in January, nearly double December’s gain. The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in 53 years, 3.4%.
An updated fiscal analysis for the legislation shows that over the next decade, the bill, if enacted, could reduce investment returns on defined-benefit funds by $6.4 billion and defined-contribution funds by $300 million.
Somerset CPAs and Advisors, the fifth-largest accounting firm in Indianapolis, is now owned by CBIZ Inc., a financial firm based in Cleveland, and affiliated accounting firm Mayer Hoffman McCann PC.
The Fed’s latest move, though smaller than its previous hike—and even larger rate increases before that—will likely further raise the costs of many consumer and business loans and the risk of a recession.
“I worry about how our society is becoming more divided and less willing to talk/compromise/work together. We need a society where we all work together for the betterment of all of us.”
Fishers-based First Internet said the decline in the housing market and the sector’s negative outlook for the next few years prompted it to get out of the consumer mortgage business.
Last week, Genesis filed Chapter 11, joining Voyager Digital, Celsius and BlockFi on the list of companies that have either filed for bankruptcy protection or gone out of business.
