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Silicon Valley Bank is now under receivership

Posted on 3/10/23 at 11:58 am
Posted by catfish 62
Atlanta
Member since Mar 2010
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Posted on 3/10/23 at 11:58 am
The Bank has collapsed in about 24 hours and California Dept of Finance has now shut them down and placed the FDIC as receiver. Is this the largest bank to ever collapse this quickly?

I work with clients who utilize SVB and their funds are now locked up until FDIC can sort it out. Massive implications. Hopefully isolated to SVB, but certainly every regional / national bank is sitting on massive unrealized bond losses. Hopefully the other banks have better diversification of industry sectors that won’t feel what Tech is feeling.

What was once a blue chip success story is now up in smoke.

How did they not forecast a liquidity crunch sooner? Or why did they not try the preferred stock raise sooner rather than the liquidation of the bond portfolio? SVB industry peers are all taking massive hits to stock price and trading was already halted in FRC/PacWest/Western Alliance.

Again, hopefully isolated and not the tip of the iceberg for the financial sector…

Yellen Saying No Bail Out At This Time

Auction Underway, Final Bids Due Sunday
This post was edited on 3/12/23 at 12:18 pm
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
51560 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 12:08 pm to
SI, SBNY, SVB were all doomed to fail once the SEC started cracking down on cryptoassests.

SBNY the only one still standing from just two weeks ago
Posted by catfish 62
Atlanta
Member since Mar 2010
5622 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 12:21 pm to
True, but didn’t think SIVB had nearly as massive as crypto exposure as SI
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
51560 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 12:30 pm to
They don't directly, but they banked the two largest crypto venture capitalist funds Seqouia and a16z. As well as stablecoin issuer Circle.

Exposure is there, but not directly.

This chart sums it up

This post was edited on 3/10/23 at 12:39 pm
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
38521 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 12:44 pm to
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What was once a blue chip success story is now up in smoke.
Meh. I always hated the idea of venture lending. Surprised it took this long, although I guess it just needed the further push over the edge of stupidly buying 3 year treasuries in a rising rate environment.

Good riddance. This will be mostly contained. Sure, there'll be some other stupid banks, but this is nothing.
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
51560 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 12:54 pm to
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This will be mostly contained. Sure, there'll be some other stupid banks, but this is nothing.


Bingo
Posted by OleVaught14
Member since Jun 2019
10378 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:06 pm to
At Silicon Valley Bank, north of 93% of the bank's $161 billion in deposits are uninsured per a recent regulatory filing,
@MaxJReyes
writes.
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
46437 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:08 pm to
quote:

At Silicon Valley Bank, north of 93% of the bank's $161 billion in deposits are uninsured per a recent regulatory filing,
@MaxJReyes
writes.
Yikes
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
51560 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:10 pm to
quote:

At Silicon Valley Bank, north of 93% of the bank's $161 billion in deposits are uninsured per a recent regulatory filing,
@MaxJReyes
writes.


Makes a ton of sense, this was not a retail bank with everyday customers.

They banked Venture Funds and held money for companies like Circle which were under intense withdraw pressure. Since not many banks would even do business with these people I am sure they had a lot of money over the 250K limit there
Posted by Alltheway Tigers!
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
7914 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:20 pm to
quote:

How did they not forecast a liquidity crunch sooner? Or why did they not try the preferred stock raise sooner rather than the liquidation of the bond portfolio? SVB industry peers are all taking massive hits to stock price and trading was already halted in FRC/PacWest/Western Alliance.


Because everyone under estimates a liquidity event and how fast it happens.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35373 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:24 pm to
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Because everyone under estimates a liquidity event and how fast it happens.
And this one was unique as the economist Justin Wolfers tweeted in that the customers were generally in the same community, and word travels much faster than if it was just a bunch of random people.
Posted by Coach Buzzcut
Member since Feb 2016
1404 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:24 pm to
quote:

How did they not forecast a liquidity crunch sooner?


They did - the CEO sold $3.57 million of stock within the last two weeks.
Posted by bikerack
NH
Member since Sep 2011
2448 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:25 pm to
Payroll processors that use SVB to issue payments cannot send direct deposits...and this may have something to do with all the complaints about Wells Fargo direct deposits today.

https://twitter.com/alexmeshkin/status/1634251503019110401



https://twitter.com/Aaronontheweb/status/1634244562641190912

quote:

Then again, if your company did payroll through Rippling (which uses SVB), you're not getting paid this week
Posted by Ross
Member since Oct 2007
47827 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:32 pm to
A bank run? What is this the 20s?

Oh, snap.

I’ll see myself out.
Posted by GhostOfFreedom
Member since Jan 2021
13101 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:34 pm to
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Yikes


I hope most of them are woke tech nerds. Please be all of Zuckerberg's wealth in one account!
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40255 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:35 pm to
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They did - the CEO sold $3.57 million of stock within the last two weeks


And. Here. We. Go.
Posted by GhostOfFreedom
Member since Jan 2021
13101 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:35 pm to
quote:

CEO sold $3.57 million of stock within the last two weeks.


Classic insider trading. Should be an open and closed case. Unless, he has paid off some people.
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40255 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:38 pm to
quote:

Then again, if your company did payroll through Rippling (which uses SVB), you're not getting paid this week


That’s, uh, not ideal
Posted by HeartAttackTiger
Member since Sep 2009
552 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:53 pm to
The obvious question - who is next?
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
51560 posts
Posted on 3/10/23 at 1:57 pm to
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The obvious question - who is next?


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