First Republic Bank Stock Drops over 50% in Premarket Trading

Tiger Newspress2023-05-01

United States regulators said on Monday First Republic Bank has been seized and a deal agreed to sell the bank to JPMorgan Chase & Co , in what is the third major U.S. institution to fail in two months.

Shares of First Republic Bank dropped over 50% in premarket trading.

The Wall Street major bank will take most of First Republic's assets and all the deposits, including uninsured ones, the regulators said in a statement.

JPMorgan was one of several interested buyers including PNC Financial Services Group , and Citizens Financial Group Inc , which submitted final bids on Sunday in an auction being run by U.S. regulators, sources familiar with the matter said over the weekend.

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation announced early on Monday it had taken possession of First Republic and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would act as its receiver.

The FDIC estimated in a statement that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund would be about $13 billion. The final cost will be determined when the FDIC terminates the receivership.

The rescue comes less than two months after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed amid a deposit flight from U.S. lenders, forcing the Federal Reserve to step in with emergency measures to stabilize markets. Those failures came after crypto-focused Silvergate voluntarily liquidated.

First Republic had total assets of $229.1 billion as of April 13 and $103.9 billion worth of deposits, the FDIC statement said.

"Our government invited us and others to step up, and we did," said Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. “Our financial strength, capabilities and business model allowed us to develop a bid to execute the transaction in a way to minimize costs to the Deposit Insurance Fund.”

The rescue comes less than two months after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed amid a deposit flight from U.S. lenders, forcing the Federal Reserve to step in with emergency measures to stabilize markets. Those failures came after crypto-focused Silvergate voluntarily liquidated.

The failed bank's 84 offices in eight states will reopen as branches of JPMorgan Chase Bank from Monday, according to the statement.

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  • Beibeier
    2023-05-01
    Beibeier
    Bad impact of UBS to take over credit Sussie being instructed by the government. Pity on FRB shareholders 
  • Nightmarez3k
    2023-05-01
    Nightmarez3k
    Haha America land of the free to rob capital.
  • Vincentan59
    2023-05-01
    Vincentan59
    Wow 🙈🙈🙈
  • Vincent ng
    2023-05-01
    Vincent ng
    Wan la wan la BBQ la 
  • OutOfTheBox
    2023-05-01
    OutOfTheBox
    Who is next in the Q?
    • Vincentan59
      Think might be PACW follow next 🤐🤐🤐
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