Did a 2018 law allow Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse?

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has led to renewed debate over a 2018 bill signed into law by then-President Trump that rolled back banking regulation. At the time it was passed, some experts predicted the exact scenario that befell SVB over the last week: The easing of oversight helped lead to the collapse of the nation’s 16th-largest bank and the biggest bank to go under since the Great Recession of the late 2000s.