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Silicon Valley Bank Closed by Regulators,
FDIC Takes Control

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Posted By: earlybird, 3/11/2023 5:29:48 PM

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Silicon Valley Bank collapsed Friday in the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history after a run on deposits doomed the tech-focused lender’s plans to raise fresh capital. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it has taken control of the bank via a new entity it created called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara. All of the bank’s deposits have been transferred to the new bank, (snip) Insured depositors will have access to their funds by Monday morning,(snip)Depositors with funds exceeding insurance caps will get receivership certificates for their uninsured balances, meaning businesses with big deposits stuck at the bank are unlikely

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*Corrie Driebusch and Meghan Bobrowsky (there should be no paywall)

Deposit accounts are FDIC-insured to a total of $250,000. The bank had invested heavily in treasury bonds. Then the fed raised rates. On Wednesday, the bank was OK. On Thursday the huge run on the bank sunk it. There is talk of Elon Musk buying it.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 3/11/2023 5:32:40 PM (No. 1422818)
"Smart folks" who have more than $250K in one bank.....aren't "smart folks", they are suckers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: marbles 3/11/2023 5:36:43 PM (No. 1422827)
Here's $ 250,000 and a certificate for the $ 9,750,000 we owe you. Good Luck.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 3/11/2023 5:47:16 PM (No. 1422841)
Paywall. I saw two paragraphs by clicking on reader view. According to an Epoch Times article, Silicon Valley Bank CEO, Greg Becker, sold $3.6 million in company stock on Feb. 27. That S*B deserves a $10 million fine and a prison sentence. But good little democrats who serve the “greater good” usually operate their criminal enterprises with impunity.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 3/11/2023 5:51:26 PM (No. 1422844)
I wonder how much "climate investing" and "green energy" investing this bank has been involved with? How many of the bank "experts" were selected for reasons related to skin color and not competence? It's Silicon Valley....where reality rarely intrudes, so expecting a normal, well run bank may well be a vain hope.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Nashman 3/11/2023 6:05:56 PM (No. 1422854)
Fully 50% of the start-ups in Silicon Valley had all their money in this bank because of their "diversity" and other woke crap. Now they can't meet their payrolls. How's the woke stuff treating you now?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: volksford 3/11/2023 6:14:55 PM (No. 1422862)
Well as we've heard so many times before Get woke go broke.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: danu 3/11/2023 7:09:48 PM (No. 1422897)
straight from the e palestine playbook: state officials must do the dirty work --so that the feds don't have to. they must 'save face', as the si si p advises.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Harlowe 3/11/2023 9:12:51 PM (No. 1422954)
#3~ According to a CNBCTV18.com article (“Silicon Valley Bank top bosses sold $4.5 million worth of shares before the collapse” – 3-11-23), SVB CEO and President Greg Becker sold over 12,000 shares on February 26, 2023; CFO David Beck sold $575,180 in stocks the same day; Chief Marketing Officer Michelle Draper, in earlier months,sold shares of the bank’s parent company, SVB Financial Group. Company “executives have been steadily selling stocks since May 2021” according to filings.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 3/11/2023 10:11:42 PM (No. 1422986)
Poster 8, thank you.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: ARKfamily 3/12/2023 8:17:02 AM (No. 1423092)
Given the comment from #8, you would think that one (if they were confident in their product) would want to invest in itself but, hey, if you know you are a "sinking ship," jumping is the only answer. Sounds like they started jumping in May 2021.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bpl40 3/12/2023 8:46:07 AM (No. 1423110)
Go woke go broke. And it's not just the bank. The politically correct Silicon Valley millionaires are getting $250,000 for their millions. Tickle me pink! Oops! Am I allowed to say that?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: cartcart 3/12/2023 9:38:40 AM (No. 1423153)
Taxpayers are not obligated to provide the cash for the uninsured balances. We can’t bail out every bank that fails or it’s 2008 all over again.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: planetgeo 3/12/2023 10:37:47 AM (No. 1423194)
Keep watching. The Democrats will almost certainly find a way to bail out SVB. In other words, we the taxpayers are going to end up paying the tab. Too many contributors to Democrats among the affected companies to allow them to go broke.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: cjjeepercreeper 3/12/2023 10:51:23 AM (No. 1423211)
I give it a 50/50 chance that there will be a run on the banks on Monday.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Zigrid 3/12/2023 11:43:39 AM (No. 1423254)
Well... another victim of the woke dudes...the executives of the bank were hired because they were women and needed to break the glass ceiling at the bank...not because they knew what they were doing...so now WE have many people losing their funds because the establishment needed to follow the woke rules...remember the crash of 2008...that happened because the banks issued loans to unqualified borrowers...the wokies will never learn...they play with your money...
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Reply 16 - Posted by: NotaBene 3/12/2023 1:52:22 PM (No. 1423353)
Send Janet Yellen, Victoria Nuland and Alexandra Chalupa back to Ukraine where they came from. No bailouts for vulture capitalists.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: planetgeo 3/12/2023 10:19:04 PM (No. 1423656)
Well, well, well... Looks like I was right, and it's not even Monday yet. Just saw that they're now guaranteeing ALL deposits. Guess what that really means.
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