Democrat Barney Frank Was Board Member at Collapsed Signature Bank

Democrat former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) was a member of the board at the collapsed Signature Bank.

As Slay News reported, New York-based Signature was shut down by regulators on Sunday [March 12] in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse on Friday [March 10].

Now it has emerged that the former Democrat congressman, author of the 2010 Dodd-Frank bill, was a board member at the imploded bank.

In a joint statement on Sunday, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced the plan to manage the fallout of SVB’s collapse as well as the demise of Signature Bank.

“Today we are taking decisive actions to protect the U.S. economy by strengthening public confidence in our banking system,” the joint statement read.

“This step will ensure that the U.S. banking system continues to perform its vital roles of protecting deposits and providing access to credit to households and businesses in a manner that promotes strong and sustainable economic growth.”

“We are also announcing a similar systemic risk exception for Signature Bank, New York, New York, which was closed today by its state chartering authority,” it added.

“All depositors of this institution will be made whole.

“As with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank, no losses will be borne by the taxpayer.”

SVB collapsed last Friday after depositors rushed to withdraw money in fear of its impending fall.

It was the 16th largest bank in the country its implosion marked the second-largest U.S. bank collapse in history.

According to Fox Business, Signature Bank became “popular among crypto companies” and provided “deposit services for its clients’ digital assets but did not make loans collateralized by them.”

Prior to the SVB collapse, Signature said it had been trying to limit such deposits.

The bank promised that it was in a “well-diversified financial position” and had “limited digital-asset related deposit balances in the wake of industry developments.”

“We want to make it clear again that Signature Bank is a well-diversified, full-service commercial bank with more than two decades of history and solid performance serving middle market businesses,” Joseph J. DePaolo, Signature Bank Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer said in a statement.

“We have built a strong reputation serving commercial clients through nine business lines and reached in excess of $100 billion in assets by continually executing our single-point-of-contact, relationship-based model where banking teams are capable of meeting all client needs,” he added.

Frank, who sat on Signature Bank’s board, strongly supported legislation in 2018 that curtailed some of the regulations that his own law Dodd-Frank put in place…..

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