Ken Sweet

Success The chiefs of failed banks will be in the Senate hot seat today about what went wrong—and why CEOs were paid millions
BYKen Sweet and The Associated Press
May 16, 2023
Finance Who’s next? Investors ravage regional bank stocks as Darwinian search for ‘the weakest’ grips Wall Street.
BYKen Sweet, Michelle Chapman, and others
May 4, 2023
Finance America has a new second-biggest bank failure and Jamie Dimon has another rescue: ‘Our government invited us and others to step up, and we did’
BYKen Sweet and The Associated Press
May 1, 2023
Finance Silicon Valley Bank collapsed because its managers were terrible and regulators dropped the ball, according to a new Fed report
BYChristopher Rugaber, Ken Sweet, and others
April 28, 2023
Politics Army of lobbyists worked to water down bank rules that regulated SVB and Signature: ‘You couldn’t throw an elbow without running into one’
BYBrian Slodysko, Ken Sweet, and others
March 21, 2023
Finance ‘A historic, sad and very challenging day’ as Switzerland goes from 2 financial giants to just one and the world banking system teeters
BYJamey Keaten, Ken Sweet, and others
March 20, 2023

Finance ‘The great mystery here is why the supervision was AWOL at Silicon Valley Bank’: Wall Street and DC point fingers amid burbling banking crisis
BYPaul Wiseman, Ken Sweet, and others
March 16, 2023
Finance Federal Reserve promises a ‘careful and thorough’ review of how it supervised failed Silicon Valley Bank: ‘We need to have humility’
BYKen Sweet, Christopher Rugaber, and others
March 13, 2023
Finance Biden says financial system is safe but all seized banks’ management should get sacked and tougher rules are needed
BYKen Sweet, Christopher Rugaber, and others
March 13, 2023
Finance Government takes extraordinary steps to ward off banking crisis as 3rd-largest bank failure quickly follows SVB implosion
BYKen Sweet, Christopher Rugaber, and others
March 13, 2023
Finance Regulators have 2 massive problems to sort out with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse
BYKen Sweet and The Associated Press
March 11, 2023
Tech Silicon Valley Bank has officially failed after less than a day of panicked selling as the federal government takes it over
BYThe Associated Press and Ken Sweet
March 10, 2023
Finance A Los Angeles bank just paid $31 million in the biggest redlining settlement in DOJ history for discrimination during the Trump years
BYKen Sweet and The Associated Press
January 12, 2023
Finance Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend among FTX associates to agree to cooperate against him in U.S. case
BYKen Sweet, Rebecca Blackwell, and others
December 22, 2022
Tech FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried will return to the US to face criminal charges and could spend the rest of his life in prison
BYKen Sweet and The Associated Press
December 21, 2022