Lenders including PNC Financial Services and JPMorgan Chase & Co., are said to be bidding for First Republic Bank, whose shares have been under pressure.
First Republic Bank FRCis said to be drawing bids from lenders JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM and PNC Financial Services Group PNC, according to the Wall Street Journal late Friday night, citing people familiar with the matter.
The WSJ report follows another harrowing day for the San Francisco-based lender that has lost nearly all of its value so far this year after tumbling 43% on Friday, amid reports that the financial institution’s condition had deteriorated so substantially as to make a private-sector rescue untenable, with an outright government bailout of the lender seen as a nonstarter.
Read: First Republic asset sales would pose ‘contained damage’ to residential mortgage bond market, says Goldman For weeks, the banking industry has been in a state of unease and First Republic has been a large part of that concern after lenders Silicon Valley Bank and Signature collapsed nearly two months ago.
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