Worth noting this bank is an order of magnitude off of the 250th biggest bank in the US. It’s actually small enough that it’s hard to figure out where in the ~4K US banks it is, but it’s in the backend.
Also, this year is still small on the “number of failed banks” list. Banks fail fairly often and this one failing would be no news normally.
For this reason, this is actually big news. Small banks are the back bone of the US financial system. They are conservative where big ones are not. They are historically the ones that keep afloat.
Too early to call, but this might be a signal of things to come.
Small banks are less regulated than large ones, as a result of lobby from them to loosen the rules so that they can eek out some profits using less-conservative strategies. They also tend to serve localized and correlated customers, so local events can have an outsized impact on them, versus big banks that are widely diversified.
Also, this year is still small on the “number of failed banks” list. Banks fail fairly often and this one failing would be no news normally.