Banking

 Gen Z is the technology generation, but have they given up on traditional banking? Answer: 8% 8% of Gen Z use an online-online bank as their primary institution.     Questions: What criteria would you look for when choosing a bank? Why do you think the majority Gen Z banks with a large institution?

The government is probing banks for how they deal with scams on the app.

Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley is giving piggy banks to kids with a message on financial literacy and some encouragement to open a bank account.

Banks make money by lending out the money that you deposit. The more cash you put in, the better you’re treated - transactions take priority, fees get waived, interest rates are higher, and a personal banker is assigned. On the flip side, the less money in your account, the more fees you pay, and the further back in the line you start from. Banks chase affluent accounts who bring large balances and high cash flow. But it’s not just banks - every business aims for as many high spenders and wealthy as possible. Yet there are 2 companies - Western Union and MoneyGram, that have gone in the opposite direction in providing financial services in peer-to-peer money transfer (international & domestic) to a population that banks deem to be too poor and too low-value.Migrant workers and the poor are left out of the global financial system for similar reasons: they have too little money, their employment is volatile, their earnings are inconsistent, there are significant language and cultural barriers, they lack documentation, etc. In this episode, we’ll cover the business of Western Union and MoneyGram, how these companies drive economic growth in developing countries, and how the market is pushing their evolution into a bank for the poor.💬 Join the Modern MBA community - https://www.reddit.com/r/modernmba/☕️ Support Modern MBA on Patreon and unlock additional content, exclusive essays, and Q&A: https://patreon.com/modernmba🔎 YouTube is full of outstanding creators, but high-quality content is often hard to find. Favoree lets you explore, rate, and review YouTube channels. Discover their new website - https://bit.ly/favoree0:00 Sending Money for Better7:49 Distributed Systems19:54 Banking the Unbanked

The FedNow introduction tops this year’s “What’s New” entries. Also included is a discussion of the proposed regulatory and policy changes following the SVB and other bank failures and the potential impacts on consumers. Finally, we will provide updated lists of best rates and updated data on how many people in the US are “unbanked.”   FedNow For a comprehensive discussion of the FedNow program, it is worth reading this speech given by Loretta Mester, President of the Cleveland Fed earlier this month to the National Bureau of Economic Research. The speech is the basis of the description below, and the figures included are from her presentation.

Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds may not be covered by deposit insurance. That's according to a warning from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Thursday. The alert comes several weeks after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. Those institutions experienced bank runs after fearful customers with uninsured deposits pulled their money en masse. Money stored on a payment app is not being held in a traditional bank account. So, if there is an event similar to a bank run with the payment apps, those funds may not be protected.

How have bank runs changed?

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

Chase First Banking is available exclusively for Chase checking customers to help teens and kids build good money habits.

Greenlight's debit card for kids empowers parents to teach trade-off decisions, money management, and the power of saving and investing – in one app experience

Help your kids feel financially independent with a GoHenry kids' debit card. It's just like a regular kids' bank account—but way better!

Higher rates, quantitative tightening and $7 trillion in uninsured deposits have been pressuring vulnerable banks, JPMorgan said.

Lawmakers weigh a bump to the FDIC deposit insurance limit.

Worksheet – Banking Related videos: The SVB collapse explained by an economist. Silicon Valley Bank failure (YouTube, Economics with Dr. A, March 11, 2023, 2:51 min.) and What is a bank run? (CNN, March, 2023, 1:59 min.) Summary: This worksheet could be used for in-class or homework practice. Stu...

From ski resort to last resort… Earlier this month Silicon Valley Bank hosted a “snow summit” for tech CFOs at the Deer Valley ski resort in...

Deposit insurance is as American as apple pie, and twice as unhealthy. John Foley makes the case for lowering the $250,000 U.S. limit, which he says could be less cruel than it sounds.

This graphic charts over 560 U.S. bank failures since 2001, including the two most recent additions: Silicon Valley Bank and Silvergate.

Banking regulators at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department swooped in to save depositors.

More details have come out on what was going on late last week and over the weekend with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the DC officials dealing with the fallout.  And as more information comes to light, we can more thoughtfully reflect on who might be to blame.  We also look at all of the investigations that have been announced as a result to hold the appropriate people accountable and address flaws in regulation/supervision.  Finally, we take a look at the other banks swept up in the frenzy.     The Feds to the Rescue   SVB’s situation was not news to the Federal Reserve last week. They had reportedly been concerned about the drop in value of the bank’s portfolio as interest rates increased. The FDIC was concerned about the customer base being so concentrated in the venture capital/tech start-up space. Both organizations were deeply into the situation Thursday.

“Are you curious about how much money the FDIC holds in its Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF)? At the end of 2022, it had a balance of $128 billion. That's 1.27x the amount of insured deposits across the country.”

“Hey, if you're currently teaching micro (time for some game theory), macro (bank runs!) or even finance (maturity transformation!) you may want to add a bit about the Silicon Valley bank run. Lemme try to give you a quick couple of slides you can insert into class. #TeachEcon”

Skittish savers can protect their deposits in many different ways if they are uneasy about the safety of their money after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank.

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has become a hub for innovation, venture capital, and high-tech startups. Against this backdrop, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) emerged as a leading financial institution. Last week they were the target of a bank run.

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Expect SVB to remain in the headlines for days and weeks to come.

Banking regulators devised a plan Sunday to shore up deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, a critical step in stemming a feared panic.

Competition among peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Zelle have been heating up for the past 10 years. The big banks tried to compete in the space when PayPal first came on the scene 25 years ago, but their business models failed. Now, Zelle, a seven-bank platform, is outpacing its rivals in average transaction value. But a rise in reported fraud activity recently got the attention of Congress, with allegations that the banks aren't supporting those affected customers.