Bank run
A bank run occurs when many bank's clients withdraw their deposits over concerns of the financial institution's insolvency.
Bank Run Media
American Union Bank, New York City, April 26, 1932
10 livres tournois banknote issued by Banque Royale, France, 1720. In 1720, shareholders demanded cash payment, leading to a run on the bank and financial chaos in France. On display at the British Museum.
The run on the Montreal City and District Savings Bank, with the mayor addressing the crowd. Printed in 1872 in the Canadian Illustrated News.
Money supply decreased substantially between Black Tuesday and the Bank Holiday in March 1933 when there were massive bank runs across the United States.
A poster for the 1896 Broadway melodrama The War of Wealth depicts a 19th-century bank run in the U.S.
Depositors clamor to withdraw their savings from a bank in Berlin, 13 July 1931
2007 run on Northern Rock, a U.K. bank, during the 2008 financial crisis
A run on a Bank of East Asia branch in Hong Kong, caused by "malicious rumours" in 2008
Bank president Walter Huston faces a crowd of frantic depositors in the Frank Capra film American Madness (1932).
