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Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators, FDIC to protect insured deposits
CNBC ^ | March 10, 2023 | Jesse Pound

Posted on 03/10/2023 8:56:57 AM PST by PJ-Comix

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To: grey_whiskers; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ...

OMG!!!!!


81 posted on 03/10/2023 9:05:41 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: grey_whiskers

What is the import of this? I am clueless about financial stuff.


82 posted on 03/10/2023 9:08:20 PM PST by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: little jeremiah

SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) just melted down.
They’d put a bunch of their reserves, their cash, into US Govt. Bonds and mortgages which paid next to nothing.

When interest rates went up on US Treasuries, people took their money out of the bank, to buy US Treasuries since those paid more interest.

So, the bank had to sell some of their bonds to have money to pay their customers.

But since the bonds held by the bank, paid a lower interest rate than brand-new bonds, the bank lost money selling them, making the problem worse.

(Think of it this way. I’m trying to sell you a bond paying 2% a year. But let’s say you can walk down the street and buy bond from someone else, paying 5%. You’ll buy the other guy’s bond, right? Cause you can earn more.

But what if I HAVE to get the money, so I absolutely positively GOTTA sell you my bond paying 2%? Only way I can do it, is charge a lot less for it than the face value.
And if I do that, the value of all my other bonds paying 2% drops too, ‘cause everyone just found out how much I can sell it for.

And thereby hangs a tale.

You’ve heard of the Federal Reserve, right?

The CEO of this stupid bank, was involved with the SF branch of the Federal Reserve.
And also, that 2nd line I posted, one of the US District Courts has a bunch of its money tied up in this stupid bank.


83 posted on 03/10/2023 10:03:56 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Lockbox

90% of the bank’s deposits were uninsured.


84 posted on 03/11/2023 3:10:35 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: GOPJ

Re: 68: - why is that surprising?

~5-7% of account holders had on deposit less than $250,000. This is a bank for big boys and girls that know the risks of such an event.

Let’s not forget - SVB is a bank of startup firms. SVB loaned money to tech startups that did not have normal collateral due to the nature of tech startups. When times were good, deposits flowed in. SVB purchased lots of Mortgage Backed Securities. Then interest rates started to rise and those MBS were not such an attractive investment. They attempted to purchase other investments to counter their losses on the MBS and ran into trouble.

For shareholders of SVB, there were warning signs starting in late 2021 when looking at the stock price. Whoever shorted SVB in the last 6 months made a tidy sum.


85 posted on 03/11/2023 3:52:08 AM PST by Fury
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To: PJ-Comix; Fred Nerks

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86 posted on 03/11/2023 4:53:27 AM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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To: grey_whiskers
UST IN: President and CEO of collapsed Silicon Valley Bank Greg Becker was a Class A director at the San Francisco Federal Reserve, Reuters reports.— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) March 11, 2023 BREAKING: Circle confirms $3.3 billion of the ~$40 billion $USDC reserves are in collapsed Silicon Valley Bank.— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) March 11, 2023

OMG

87 posted on 03/11/2023 6:02:44 AM PST by GOPJ (The few sowed the wind, and the many reaped their whirlwind. - Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: Skwor
I am curious if other banks will follow.

Possibly, also curious if regulators fashion costly, exacerbating "solution(s)" to prior regulator-created "solutions" (read: mistakes) after 2008 that lead to SVB collapse.

88 posted on 03/11/2023 7:04:06 AM PST by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: Ymani Cricket

H/T Ymani Cricket

89 posted on 03/11/2023 7:58:50 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

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90 posted on 03/11/2023 9:25:41 AM PST by jneesy (Good lord we have Jimmy Carters dumb cousin in the white house)
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To: Rockingham

I worked at the FDIC during the last bank crisis. I don’t recall one instance where the insurance cap was waived. If there are any funds left over after paying insured depositors, then a process is set up where uninsured depositors may file a claim.


91 posted on 03/11/2023 9:34:26 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: PAR35
The bank closings I went on usually started at 6PM on Friday. Over the weekend, assets would be transferred to a newly created bank, just like the DINB. Resolution specialists worked to identify assets that could/would be sold, the proceeds used to replenish the Deposit Insurance Fund.

When the news hit Friday, I emailed our CEO, and briefly described how the process works. Our real estate company is in acquisition mode. If SVB has any multifamily assets, the FDIC will be looking for buyers. He asked me to reach out to a director I worked for, to schedule a meeting.

For example, Trump's Treasury Secretary made his fortune from the closing of One West Bank in Southern CA. He was one of a group of investors who purchased it from the FDIC. They flipped it two years later, his share of the profits was $200 million.

92 posted on 03/11/2023 9:43:54 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: PGR88

This is why we need honest bank regulation.

Seems we as a people always forget why such fences exist.


93 posted on 03/11/2023 9:50:39 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: PJ-Comix

So if FDIC is going to cover all this loss, where does their money come from. Where is it parked?


94 posted on 03/11/2023 9:57:26 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Night Hides Not
Perhaps that is what I had in mind. I do not fully trust my memory on the subject. My experience in the banking field is stale, a couple of years as a lawyer on the staff of a state banking regulator in the mid-80s. It was an eventful period in banking and included the inception of the S&L crisis.
95 posted on 03/11/2023 10:43:31 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: PJ-Comix

My wife found out about a month ago that our bank, which had told us our money was all insured, had let information that my wife picked up and investigated, found only about a quarter of it or less was insured.

(this discovery predated the current issue with this Silicon Valley bank)

When we went to the bank for an appointment to discuss it today, I was sitting in the office, and reading a placard on the desk that said:

“FDIC...Backed by the faith and security of the US Government.”

I stared at that for a long time, and the more I looked at it, the more absurd it sounded to me.

There is no faith. Definitely no faith.

There is no security. Definitely no security.


96 posted on 03/11/2023 1:33:26 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Rockingham
My memory may not be crystal clear either, it’s 9 years since I left the FDIC. I worked in the section that oversaw loan servicers . We did our jobs well, good group of people .

Seeing those police officers outside the bank brought back memories. At a closing in Missouri, one overheard my phone call with a contractor who was not doing what he was supposed to be doing. Let’s just say it was a “terse” call.

The police officer said, “you guys are tough!” Lol, good times. I told him it was the ex-military in me.

97 posted on 03/11/2023 1:44:06 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not
As things got more computerized and they got efficient enough that they could frequently do a Thursday closing with the assuming bank re-opening Friday morning based on the computer data. Folks then still worked through the weekend and there was a settlement process with the assuming bank if the numbers turned out to be a little off. The goal was to get home by Sunday night, but in some cases it might take a few weeks for the team to wrap up. And for larger institutions, there might be a small team (3 or 4 folks) of FDIC folks tucked around somewhere for months (frequently with a team of contractors and temps hired from the former bank that the assuming bank didn't want - that was in 2008-09 before they set up the field offices, and the FDIC folks tended to be retirees on temp contracts).

I have no idea how they handled this one - I suspect they did the DINB because they didn't have time to shop anything before the closing.

I do know the FDIC did see the upcoming crisis and started hiring liquidation (sorry, "resolution" staff last year.

98 posted on 03/11/2023 2:08:21 PM PST by PAR35
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To: rlmorel
My wife found out about a month ago that our bank, which had told us our money was all insured

There are ways to structure accounts so that more than $250,000 can be insured, but the problem is if you tell the bank to do that, and they say they've done it, but the account records don't show that it's done exactly right, you are the one that gets screwed at the closing, not the bank. Safer to have multiple banks.

99 posted on 03/11/2023 2:13:55 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Maine Mariner

Trust the bankers to get that right at your own risk.


100 posted on 03/11/2023 2:14:47 PM PST by PAR35
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