Right. They'll get the cash they need from the Fed and the FDIC, not from BoA and JP Morgan.
Let me think that thru for a minute. SVB gets cash from FDIC. SVB owes nothing on that because it’s insurance that they paid for. The cash from FDIC does not cover accounts over $250k. The Fed can lend cash to SVB. That covers other shortages, but doesn’t fix SVB’s balance sheet. SVB still has junk AFS and there’s an offsetting liability to the Fed. I bet SVB is trading junk AFS for good ASF with BoA and JP Morgan plus cash from the Fed to make BoA and JP Morgan whole. It’s a matter of percentages. SVG just needs to get to a better mix of asset classes. This is about spreading risk between three banks. Even so, there is a systemic problem with junk assets. As long as the Fed raises interest rates, asset values will continue to fall. They are speculating that by diversifying asset types that the weighted average will not drive SVB broke.
I don’t like it. It’s bundling and packaging to reduce risk, a play off of 2008, packaging subprime mortgages, except this time it’s bonds.