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    > none of the failures that have happened in the US in the past few years
I assume you are referencing Silicon Valley Bank, which wasn't a small bank and wasn't run by young, inexperienced leaders. In the US, community banks would be 10% the size of SVB at its peak (before the run). Except SVB, can you name any other failures? And were they due to young, inexperienced leaders? I cannot name a single one.


Republic Bank just failed in the past month (not to be confused with the First Republic Bank that failed last year).

This newest Republic failure was a bank started by the guy who created Commerce Bancorp which was purchased by TD Bank. The guy is a piece of work: https://archive.is/DwtAx

(I wouldn't say he is young but really not the guy for the job given the history and the banking environment now)


First Republic Bank didn't fail. It was bought by JPMorgan. No customers lost any money.



> I assume you are referencing Silicon Valley Bank

No: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

Many of these had far more, and many far less customers and deposits than Monzo in 2016.




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