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Michael S. Barr: What we found is that supervisors were essentially too timid and too slow to raise those standards in a timely enough…

On the recordMay 15, 2023
What we found is that supervisors were essentially too timid and too slow to raise those standards in a timely enough way.
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Michael S. Barr

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Barr discusses the Federal Reserve's slow response to supervisory concerns at SVB.

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