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It's time for regulators to require that all securities be marked to market and reflected in banks' income, without resorting to clumsy exceptions.

Buffett blamed failed-bank executives for causing instability in the financial sector Wednesday, but said with regulators’ backing, “banks can go bust” and “depositors aren’t going to be hurt.”

There are banks and then there are systemically important banks. These banks are too-big-to fail. They are required to maintain certain financial buffers to protect depositors from fast moving markets, concentrated bank investments and guard against putting the broader financial system at risk.

Jamie Dimon wrote about the Fed's role in SVB's meltdown, A.I. improving efficiency in banking, seeing Apple and Walmart as competitors, and more.

Jamie Dimon says downfalls of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse have undermined confidence

The JPMorgan Chase CEO also outlined his thoughts on a potential recession in his annual shareholder letter this week, and discussed consumers’ fading savings.

The J.P. Morgan CEO warned any new ill-advised oversight rules could actually backfire, with unsupervised tech companies like Apple winning out.

How big a role should heritage banks play in the ultra-modern tech finance world?

Humans are naturally quite bad at projecting risk. We rarely think about what might happen if there is a sudden ban run and our deposits are in peril.