JPMorgan to buy First Republic after regulators seize control

US financial authorities seized California’s troubled First Republic Bank on Monday and sold it to JPMorgan Chase, hoping to bring to a close a two-month banking crisis that has spooked the financial system.

First Republic, the second-largest bank by assets to collapse in US history, has been in free fall after disclosing last week that it lost more than $100 billion in deposits in the first quarter.