ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Banking Bad examines past financial crises through the lived experience of people directly responsible for steering the system through financial calamity. It tells the story of the real time, high-pressure decisions made to deal with bank failures, contagion events, financial rescues and the human decisions made to bring the financial world back from the edge of systemic collapse. Through expert interviews and real-world case studies, this podcast uncovers lessons learned from past banking crises that have a striking resemblance to the issues that continue to impact the future of banking.
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
41 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
10 episodes
since May 20, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In the Banking Bad Season 1 finale, guest moderator Rob Blackwell joins banking experts Don Billings and C.K. Lee to challenge and assess the season’s key policy recommendations.
Should depositors be expected to police their banks? Can expanded guarantees stop contagion without encouraging excessi…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode of Banking Bad, former FDIC General Counsel Rick Osterman joins John Bovenzi and Tom Vice to explore the legal side of bank failure: who is held accountable, how responsibility is determined, and where the line is drawn between poor judgment, negligence, gross negligence, and fraud.…
Joe Fellerman, a senior asset liquidation and bank recovery and resolution planning expert joins Banking Bad to discuss the dramatic improvements that have been made in the bank resolution process after the 2008 financial crisis.
In the turmoil following the failures of Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and Wachovia, financial markets froze and confidence in the banking system deteriorated rapidly. Former FDIC senior official Diane Ellis takes us behind the scenes as regulators worked to stabilize a rapidly unravelling fin…
Only days after successfully resolving Washington Mutual, FDIC officials were confronted with an even greater challenge: the impending failure of Wachovia, then the fourth-largest bank in the United States. In this episode, Jim Wigand joins John Bovenzi and Tom Vice to recount the extraordinary rac…
In September 2008, as the collapse of Lehman Brothers shook confidence across the global financial system, Washington Mutual became the largest bank failure in U.S. history. In this episode, former FDIC Director of Resolutions and Receiverships Jim Wigand joins John Bovenzi and Tom Vice to provide …
In this episode of Banking Bad, we speak with Sandra Thompson, former Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and former Director of Bank Supervision at the FDIC, about one of the most important—but least understood—parts of financial crisis management: the lender of last resort.
In Episode 3 of Banking Bad, our guest is Eric Spitler, a law professor at the University of North Carolina and former Director of Legislative Affairs at the FDIC and the SEC, for a timely discussion about one of the oldest threats in banking: the bank run.
From Continental Illinois to Washington …
This episode tells the story of Penn Square National Bank through the eyes of Lesylee Sullivan Hodge, who worked at the bank for a brief time before beginning a long career with the FDIC. What began as a small Oklahoma City bank became a symbol of how quickly a financial institution can go rogue wh…
Banking Bad examines past financial crises from the perspective of people directly responsible for steering the system through financial calamity. It tells the story of the real time, high-pressure decisions made to deal with bank failures, contagion events, financial rescues and the human decision…
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