March 12 (Reuters) – State regulators closed New York-primarily based Signature Bank (SBNY.O) on Sunday, the third biggest failure in U.S. banking history, two days right after authorities shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB.O) in a collapse that stranded billions in deposits.

The Federal Deposit Insurance coverage Corporation (FDIC) took handle of Signature, which had $110.36 billion in assets and $88.59 in deposits at the finish of final year, according to New York state’s Division of Monetary Solutions.

All of the depositors of Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank will be created entire, and “no losses will be borne by the taxpayer,” the U.S. Treasury Division and other bank regulators stated in a joint statement.

Staff appeared to collect at the company’s Manhattan headquarters for meetings on Sunday, ordering catering from Carmine’s, an Italian restaurant, and Starbucks coffee, according to a Reuters reporter on the scene. Individuals trickled out of the constructing right after the news of the closure was announced.

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Representatives for the lender did not instantly respond to a request for comment.

Signature’s failure followed Silicon Valley Bank’s Friday shutdown, the second biggest in U.S. history behind Washington Mutual, which collapsed through the 2008 monetary crisis.

Investors have been unnerved by the speed at which startup-focused SVB, the 16th biggest lender in the U.S., was toppled by buyer withdrawals. The episode final week erased much more than $one hundred billion in industry worth from U.S. banks, prompting swift action from government officials more than the weekend to attempt and restore self-confidence in the monetary technique.

The FDIC established a “bridge” successor bank on Sunday which will allow buyers to access their funds on Monday. Signature Bank’s depositors and borrowers will automatically turn out to be buyers of the bridge bank, the FDIC stated.

The regulator named former Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB.O) Chief Executive Greg Carmichael as CEO of the bridge bank.

Silicon Valley Bank buyers will have access to their deposits beginning on Monday, U.S. officials stated on Sunday. The federal government also announced actions to shore up deposits and attempt and stem any broader fallout.

Signature was a industrial bank with private client offices in New York, Connecticut, California, Nevada and North Carolina, and had nine national business enterprise lines like industrial true estate and digital asset banking.

As of September, virtually a quarter of its deposits came from the cryptocurrency sector, but the bank announced in December that it would shrink its crypto-associated deposits by $eight billion.

Signature Bank announced in February that its chief executive officer, Joseph DePaolo, would transition into a senior adviser part in 2023 and would be succeeded by the bank’s chief operating officer, Eric Howell. DePaolo has served as president and CEO given that Signature’s inception in 2001.

The bank had a lengthy-standing connection with former President Donald Trump and his household, offering Trump and his business enterprise with checking accounts and financing a number of of the family’s ventures. Signature Bank reduce ties with Trump in 2021 following the deadly Jan. six riots on Capitol Hill, and urged Trump to resign.

In a statement, New York Governor Kathy Hochul stated she hoped the U.S. government’s actions on Sunday would deliver “improved self-confidence in the stability of our banking technique.”

“Numerous depositors at these banks are little enterprises, like these driving the innovation economy, and their accomplishment is important to New York’s robust economy,” she stated.

Officials stated on Sunday shareholders and particular unsecured debtholders of Signature Bank, as effectively as these of Silicon Valley Bank, would not be protected, and that senior management of each banks has been removed.

Any losses to the FDIC’s Deposit Insurance coverage Fund employed to assistance uninsured depositors will be recovered by a particular assessment on banks, as needed by law, officials stated.

Reporting by Hannah Lang in Washington and Nupur Anand in New York Editing by Leslie Adler, Lisa Shumaker Lincoln Feast and Muralikumar Anantharaman

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Hannah Lang covers monetary technologies and cryptocurrency, like the enterprises that drive the business and policy developments that govern the sector. Hannah previously worked at American Banker exactly where she covered bank regulation and the Federal Reserve. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park and lives in Washington, DC.