Silicon Valley Bank’s Uninsured Depositors Bailed Out. Crypto Signature Bank Shut Down, All Depositors Bailed Out. Senior Execs Fired. All Shareholders, Some Bondholders Bailed In by Wolf Richter • Mar 12, 2023 • 581 Comments Treasury/Fed/FDIC issue joint statement with Tough Love for investors in failed banks.
Crypto Bank Silvergate to Shut Down and Liquidate, after FDIC Examiners Show up. Shares Collapse Entirely by Wolf Richter • Mar 8, 2023 • 160 Comments In 16 months from $239 at peak crypto consensual hallucination to $2.76, including the 44% plunge afterhours.
Crypto Bank Silvergate Issues “Going Concern” Warning, Says Q4 Financials with $1 Billion Loss Were Fake, Loss Was Even Bigger, Frets about “Regulatory Capital Ratios” by Wolf Richter • Mar 1, 2023 • 67 Comments It just keeps getting funnier with this crypto stuff. Shares crush dip buyers after hours.
Crypto-Bank Silvergate Details its Own Implosion, Much of its Equity Capital Wiped Out. I’m Waiting for the FDIC to Show Up by Wolf Richter • Jan 5, 2023 • 90 Comments Wait a minute… It still “believes in” crypto? Is crypto now a religion that a bank “believes in?” FDIC, are you reading this?
Fed, FDIC, & OCC Warn Banks about Contagion from Cryptos, with Laundry List of Sordid Stuff Inherent in the Crypto Scene by Wolf Richter • Jan 3, 2023 • 159 Comments Only a couple of smaller banks have significant exposure to cryptos, and their shares have collapsed.