Political Quotes

“Madam President, today I am introducing the Bank Management Accountability Act along with Senator Grassley. This bipartisan bill will make it easier for banking regulators to claw back compensation from directors and senior executives at failed systemically important banks and to ban those directors and executives from future participation in the financial industry. We have recently experienced the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, two systemically important banks each with assets exceeding $100 billion. Executives at these banks received exorbitant compensation as the banks took on excessive risks. The CEO of Silicon Valley Bank received $10 million in compensation in 2022 and sold $3.5 million of company stock in the days before the failure. The CEO of Signature Bank received $8.7 million in compensation in 2022 and sold millions of dollars' worth of company stock in the weeks and months before the failure. The government declared the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank a ``systemic risk'' to the economy and stepped in with extraordinary backstops and emergency assistance, including protecting uninsured depositors. While these actions prevented contagion from spreading throughout the financial system, these two failures are expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's, FDIC's deposit insurance fund over $20 billion and have required the Federal Reserve to extend over $143 billion in credit to their successor banks.…”