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HARRIS DESCRIBED THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE SIGNATURE FAILURE AS “A NEW-FASHIONED BANK RUN.” Photo: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg News By Mengqi Sun April 5, 2023 4:11 pm ET Print Text Your browser does not support the audio tag. Listen to article Length (3 minutes) 00:00 / 03:14 1x This article is in your queue. Open Queue The head of the New York State Department of Financial Services said the regulator’s decision to close Signature Bank last month was as a result of problems with the New York bank’s liquidity, not simply because it had banking customers in the cryptocurrency space. Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris, speaking at a crypto industry conference Wednesday, described the events leading up to the Signature failure last month as “a new-fashioned bank run,” in which the bank had a high percentage of uninsured deposits and lacked liquidity management protocols to meet withdrawal requests. “The idea that the taking possession of Signature was about crypto and this is ‘Choke Point 2.0’ is really ludicrous,” Ms. Harris said at the Links NYC conference hosted by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP WSJ | RISK AND COMPLIANCE JOURNAL Our Morning Risk Report features insights and news on governance, risk and compliance. PREVIEW SUBSCRIBE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crypto circles a few weeks ago were abuzz with talk that Washington was plotting to kill crypto by cutting off its access to the banking system, in what some commentators dubbed “Operation Choke Point 2.0.” Those fears have now abated somewhat, as banks have stepped up to fill the vacuum created after closures of Silvergate Capital Corp. and Signature. The NYDFS stepped in March 12 and placed Signature bank into receivership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to protect depositors. Signature Bank, which built its business around a collection of niche markets, was the third-largest bank to fail in U.S. history. Signature Bank had about $4 billion of deposits related to its digital assets banking business, according to a March 20 statement from the FDIC. Speaking more broadly about the crypto industry, Ms. Harris said the sector still lacks maturity in its compliance programs even as it has grown in prominence. During many of the NYDFS’s examinations and enforcement actions, her team would find that many companies’ compliance programs consisted of “reams of paper” and Excel spreadsheets, among other things, she said. “There is still a lack of maturity around Bank Secrecy Act-anti-money-laundering [compliance] and cybersecurity,” Ms. Harris said. “We’re eager for the day when those systems mature and scale as the business side does.” She added that part of having a robust compliance program at crypto firms is acquiring the right technology, such as blockchain analytics tools, and hiring trained professionals to use them. The NYDFS has beefed up its digital asset unit staffing over the past year, she said, with its crypto unit now employing more than 50. 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