In 2023, the US government and America's largest banks joined forces in a rare moment of comity.
They were forced into action after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed on March 10, 2023, quickly followed by two other lenders, First Republic and Signature Bank.
Faced with the threat of a billowing crisis that could threaten the banking industry - the worst one since 2008 rivals and regulators put together a huge bailout fund.
Eventually, all three ailing banks were declared insolvent by the government and sold off.
The biggest banks emerged from the period even larger, after picking up accounts from their smaller rivals. But they have also grown more confident in challenging regulators on what went wrong and what to do to prevent future crises.
Indeed, many bankers and their lobbyists now rush to describe the period as a regional banking crisis, a term that tends to understate how worried the industry was at the time.
One reason for the increased tensions is that government officials are proposing rule changes that lenders argue will crimp their businesses, and would not have done much to stem SVB's collapse.
Regulators say that 2023's crisis proves that changes are needed.
They point to increasing risks in the commercial and residential real estate markets and the growing number of so-called problem banks, or those rated poorly for financial, operational or managerial weaknesses.
Here is the state of play, one year after the crisis.
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