FDIC Sells Much of Silicon Valley Bank to First-Citizens Bank. Total Cost of SVB Collapse to Deposit Insurance Fund: $20 Bn by Wolf Richter • Mar 27, 2023 • 144 Comments Even collapsed banks have lots of assets that the FDIC sells to cover the costs to the Fund. Signature Bank collapse costs the Fund only $2.5 billion
My Company Ended Up with Some Exposure to Silicon Valley Bank: I Warned about Monogamy’s Downside Years Ago by John McNellis • Mar 26, 2023 • 55 Comments In 2011, I published an essay on the need for multiple banking relationships that hits the SVB coffin nail on the head.
The Fed Should Be Fired as Bank Regulator. Powell’s Discussion of Silicon Valley Bank & Regulatory Failure Shows Why by Wolf Richter • Mar 24, 2023 • 191 Comments The Fed is structurally too conflicted to regulate banks. The FDIC is not, but it needs tiger teeth to bite CEOs’ heads off.
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.
SVB Financial had Investment-Grade Credit Ratings (Moody’s, S&P) up to Collapse. Got Slashed in One Fell Swoop to Default by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2023 • 325 Comments Not learned a thing since the Financial Crisis. Relying on ratings, preferred stock holders found themselves bailed in, bondholders got crushed.
RIP Silicon Valley Bank: Shut Down by California Regulator, Taken Over by FDIC, Shareholders Bailed In, Insured Depositors to Get their Cash by Monday by Wolf Richter • Mar 10, 2023 • 379 Comments The bank survived the Dotcom Bust. But this bust is far bigger because the Free-Money bubble was far bigger. FDIC may not have a loss on this deal.
Bank Stocks Got Wacked: Between a Rock and a Hard Place as Banks Run Out Free Money by Wolf Richter • Mar 9, 2023 • 187 Comments Oh dearie, those bonds.
SVB Financial/Silicon Valley Bank Shares Collapse 55% Today, 84% from Consensual Hallucination Peak, as it Shores Up Balance Sheet & Liquidity to Face the Future by Wolf Richter • Mar 9, 2023 • 255 Comments SVB is massively involved in all segments of the startup scene that is now facing a mass extinction event.
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.
Where’s the Contagion from the Crypto Implosion? by Wolf Richter • Nov 16, 2022 • 109 Comments As the FTX collapse shows, the shenanigans guarantee smooth and efficient contagion inside the crypto zone. But beyond it?
