Hmm....I work in the tech industry...Interesting to say the least...maybe a nothing-burger but it's a big bank to fail...
Hmm....I work in the tech industry...Interesting to say the least...maybe a nothing-burger but it's a big bank to fail...
Hmm....I work in the tech industry...Interesting to say the least...maybe a nothing-burger but it's a big bank to fail...
So for us non money saavy people... What does this mean?
I read as.. " Its insured money by the government" which means good luck getting yhour money
Yeah….definitely an dud of a topic but with all the financial/tech stuff happening just seems like this stuff is going to be happening more and more.After a week of watching the Premiere League 9 ball tournament I came in expecting a discussion on Shane Van Boening. This is way less interesting. Lol
They have plenty of money, it's mainly a liquidity issue due to terrible investing on their end.
Here's a great write up pulled from Reddit:
Answer: at an ELI5 level, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a bank that focuses on providing services to startups and entrepreneurs. Many companies use it to hold funds that they receive from venture capitalists.
In 2021, the market was soaring and startups were getting tons of money. They put this money in SVB, which went from holding $61.76bn at the end of 2019 to $189.20bn at the end of 2021.
Banks normally make money by loaning out a portion of the money they hold, but SVB was getting so much money that they couldn't loan out fast enough. So instead, they bought a bunch of long term investments, the majority of which will mature in 10 years.
This would be okay except that when the fed started raising interest rates last year, the value of these long term assets fell hard. Simultaneously, tech and startups also started to struggle with the rate hikes (see: all the big layoffs) and pull from their deposits more quickly. By the end of 2022 deposits were down to $161 billion.
Yesterday SVB announced a fire sale: they sold pretty much everything they could sell in order to raise cash and balance out all those long term assets and improve financial health metrics. They sold over 21 billion worth of investments and are trying to raise 3 billion more.
Investors and Venture Capitalists were shocked and concerned about why they had to do this and why they had to do it now. Some VCs told their startups to pull their money out of SVB or to keep no more than 250k in the bank (which is how much is insured by the FDIC).
This has raised concerns of starting a run on the bank. SVB is theoretically fine right now, but if all of these startups try to pull their money out they won't be.
They might not have been able to meet the minimum capital requirements. But I assume they didn't have enough liquidity to cover expected withdrawals over the next few daysWhy would the FDIC step in if they are liquid though?
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Why would the FDIC step in if they are liquid though?
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the ceo offloading sizable chunks of position in the past few weeks is pretty telling of how things actually go
After a week of watching the Premiere League 9 ball tournament I came in expecting a discussion on Shane Van Boening. This is way less interesting. Lol