The US central bank has said it failed to act with “sufficient force and urgency” in its oversight of Silicon Valley Bank, which collapsed last month in the country’s biggest bank failure since 2008.
The conclusion is one of the main findings from the Federal Reserve’s investigation of the episode.
It sparked global fears about the state of the banking industry.
The review comes as another US lender, First Republic, remains in trouble.
US regulators are reported to be working on a potential rescue for the struggling firm, which was the 14th largest bank in the US at the end of last year.
Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, who led the review, said the US central bank should toughen its rules in response to what it had learned from SVB’s demise.
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