I think some of you may have heard of the story, but I did not see discussions here. I will quote the important points:
Western Alliance shares recovered from their session lows after the Arizona-based bank denied it was exploring a potential sale.
The Arizona bank described an earlier version of this FT report, which said it was considering a potential sale of all or part of its business, as “categorically false in all respects”, adding: “Western Alliance is not exploring a sale, nor has it hired an advisor to explore strategic options.”
Banks will always deny that they are having problems to discourage customers from withdrawing their funds. But this deception won't last for long because they will start looking for options such as sourcing for funds and laying off workers.
I don't know if it was the Financial Times report, but if one piece of news could have caused bank shares to decline by that much, then Bitcoin has become more solid and volatile than in the past.
What do you think, will we face more banks, more difficulties, or has the worst already happened?
More banks will also have the same issues because of the recent FED increase of interest rate. The increase will reduce customer's loan applications because it will be more expensive to borrow. Meanwhile, bank debtors will have to repay their loans based on past lower interest rates making banks to experience more losses. Businesses will also withdraw more funds from their deposits because loans are expensive.
Also, some banks are mismanaged because most of their deposits exceed the $250,000 insurance benchmark of FDIC.
I have observed that bitcoin is gradually becoming independent of some economic news and the fall of these banks has made Bitcoin more attractive to investors.