First Republic Bank

Executives and investors fret about impact of rising rates and empty buildings on $5.6tn market

Activist investor makes case for an increase on the $250,000 deposit insurance limit

Quarter-point uptick is 10th hike in little over a year

PacWest and Western Alliance stock under pressure amid broad sell-off of lenders

Attendees at Milken financial conference fear credit crunch and sharper slowdown after banking turmoil

Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country’s second-largest bank failure

Troubled lender set to be sold or taken over by regulators before markets open on Monday

Advisers to embattled Californian lender must overcome scepticism in Biden administration

Government officials and regulators scramble to come up with plan to stabilise ailing lender

Executives at troubled lender refused to take questions on earnings call with analysts

California-based lender plans to slash its workforce by as much as a quarter

Treasury secretary to defend ‘decisive and forceful actions’ by regulators to avert broader crisis

Bearish nerves seem to be winning right now — despite good reasons to hope not