Context: The FTX collapse in November 2022 appears to be the start of this current banking crisis. FTX collapse apparently damaged Silvergate Capital. Silvergate Capital failure on 3-8-23 damaged SVB on 3-9-23, resulting in its failure on 3-10-23. Silvergate Capital ripple possibly cause of Signature Bank (NY) failure on 3-12-23. Ripples sent to 6 more banks on 3-13-23 resulting in the Moody's watch alert. Connection between SVB or Silvergate and Signature has not yet been explicitly identified. Signature Bank was being sued over FTX.
Real Time Trade Halts to see publicly traded banks having liquidity issues per investor reactions and volatility: https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=tradehalts#
UPDATED 3-15-23
--Big Foreign Banks about to go BUST--
Credit Suisse - Credit Default Swaps approaching "DISTRESSED" https://finance.yahoo.com/video/credit-suisse-credit-default-swap-181841513.html
--Failed/Taken over by FDIC--
Silvergate Capital - failed 3-8-23
Silicon Valley Bank - failed 3-10-23; purchased by HSBC 3-13-23
Signature Bank - failed 3-12-23; buyer not revealed yet
--Downgraded to JUNK--
First Republic Bank (FRC) - 3-15 Fitch & S&P downgrade https://www.marketwatch.com/story/first-republic-bank-downgraded-to-junk-status-by-s-p-global-ratings-in-four-notch-move-b1d442d4
--Moody's Five Remaining Potential Downgrades from 3-14-23--
Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL)
Comerica Bank (CM)
UMB Financial (UMBF)
Zions Babncorporation (ZION) - parent of Nevada State Bank
Intrust Financial (Private)
--Others showing liquidity issues--
PacWest Bancorp (PACW)
Customers Bancorp, Inc (CUBI)
East West Bancorp (EWBC)
First Horizon Corporation, Tennessee (FHN)
Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp (MCB)
Regions Financial Corporation (RF)
--Banks seeing liquidity ripple--
Bank of Hawaii (BOH)
KeyCorp (KEY)
United Community Bank (UCBIO)
The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW)
Huntington Banc (HBANL)
Magyar Bancorp Inc (MGYR)
Macatawa Bank Corporation (MCBC)
--U.S. Big Six Banks (likely consolidators and possibly owners of Federal Reserve)--
Wells-Fargo Bank - Wachovia Securities is now WF Securities
JP Morgan Chase -
Bank of America - Merrill Lynch is division now
Citigroup
U.S. Bank
Goldman Sachs
--Foreign Players--
HSBC - purchased SVB carcass on 3-13-23
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) - strategic partner of Morgan Stanley
Practically, it means the bank debt is higher risk, so creditors loaning the bank money should expect a higher interest rate on money loaned to it. It also means that the price of credit default swap insurance that can be purchased to protect investors against defaults on bank "investments" or loans issued also goes up.
AAA rating - is top quality rating for corporate debt notes (corporate bonds issued by banks)
Junk - lowest rating and NON investment grade. Many investment companies are NOT ALLOWED to own JUNK rated bonds. So this means automatic liquidation/selling by most gov't entities including Federal and State entities