Silicon Valley is working with Wall Street to buy some SVB assets The big buzz is about Apollo's talks with venture capital firms. Axios · Mar 15, 2023
SVB collapse may be start of ‘slow-rolling crisis’, warns BlackRock boss Larry Fink tells investors more ‘shutdowns and seizures’ in US possible and predicts inflation and interest rates to rise The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2023
The pitchforks are out for diversity efforts after SVB's downfall Republican critics of Silicon Valley Bank argue that its board was distracted by diversity goals when it allowed the bank to fail. Here’s why that nonsensical assertion is still frightening. Fortune · Mar 15, 2023
Shuli Ren: The Fed’s easy fix to avert another bank crisis The Federal Reserve's plan to expand oversight of lenders after the collapse of SVB Financial Group and Signature Bank is a move in the right direction. While it will likely be a laborious process, there is also an easy fix. Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023
Allison Schrager: Don't make the same mistake as SVB with your 401(k) The poor risk management at Silicon Valley Bank is stunning. But what went wrong is actually pretty common. There is often confusion about what makes a safe asset versus a risky one, and guessing wrong is often at the core of financial blow-ups. Safe assets, as we properly define them,… Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023
‘A huge disruption’: Startups worldwide gird for life after SVB Quang Hoang, the co-founder of a startup called Birdly Inc., spent his Monday refreshing the website of Silicon Valley Bank every hour. His San Francisco-based mentoring startup had about $10 million deposited with the now-failed financial institution, patronized by a large portion of the country’s most promising tech companies. But… Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023
Bank failures could spur Congress to act on stablecoins Digital assets chair French Hill and Circle's Dante Disparte weigh in. Fortune · Mar 15, 2023
The SVB collapse adds financial instability to the Fed’s inflation fight. A recession may not be the worst outcome The Fed now faces a quandary: It must fight inflation while making sure that the remedy of rising rates doesn’t further undermine financial stability. Fortune · Mar 15, 2023
Bank of America has raked in $15 billion in new deposits after SVB collapse Sources familiar with the matter say former Silicon Valley Bank customers are looking to put their money in the safest institution possible. Fortune · Mar 15, 2023
It's time for CFOs to 'adjust their burn profile' and make available cash last two years Managing risk and cash flow are top of mind amid bank failures. Fortune · Mar 15, 2023
Progressives and bankers find common ground in SVB crisis They both blame Fed regulators. Axios · Mar 15, 2023
VCs helped bring down SVB. The bank's new CEO wants them to save it SVB’s new CEO held calls with clients to lay out potential outcomes. Fortune · Mar 15, 2023
High street banks lure tech firms away from Silicon Valley Bank UK after HSBC rescue deal High Street banks are quietly stepping up their efforts to lure startups away from Silicon Valley Bank UK as the beleaguered firm’s customers weigh up whether to keep their accounts open after a last-minute rescue deal by HSBC. Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2023
Be serious, conservatives. ‘Wokeness’ didn’t cause Silicon Valley Bank’s demise The right is claiming that political correctness – not capitalism – caused this financial catastrophe. Really? The Guardian - US · Mar 15, 2023
The Guardian - US · Mar 15, 2023 Wineries to affordable housing: SVB fall knocks out more than startups Demise of Silicon Valley Bank has rattled not just businesses and investors but the ecosystem that grew up around it
Fortune · Mar 15, 2023 Cathie Wood: regulators missed 'crisis looming in plain sight' The tech investor argued that problems in traditional banking hurt cryptocurrencies, not the other way around.
Los Angeles Times · Mar 15, 2023 Commentary: Beyond saving Silicon Valley Bank’s depositors, here’s what needs to happen next Before Thursday, Silicon Valley Bank was regarded as being in “sound financial condition.” But on that day it experienced attempted withdrawals of $42 billion, about a third of its U.S. deposits. By close of business, the run on the bank made it incapable of paying its obligations as they came…
Boston Herald · Mar 15, 2023 Joe Battenfeld: Bank failures fueling insecurity and angst among American voters The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and two other large banks is fueling economic insecurity and angst among an already rattled American public and is prompting a major damage control effort by President Joe Biden.
Fortune · Mar 15, 2023 Housing market stares down 2 shifts in the wake of SVB's collapse, says Zillow Zillow chief economist gives two predictions for how the shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank could impact the housing market in 2023.
WEKU · Mar 15, 2023 For 40 years, Silicon Valley Bank was a tech industry icon. It collapsed in just days Silicon Valley Bank was not a household name. For four decades, SVB successfully competed with big name financial institutions only to come crumbling down in a matter of days.
Salon · Mar 15, 2023 Why SVB, Signature Bank failed so fast The failures at SVB and Signature were two of the three biggest in U.S. banking history
Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023 Editorial: Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapses show regulation is needed After Friday’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, big bankers are again looking to Washington with outstretched hands. We should be skeptical.
Chicago Tribune · Mar 15, 2023 Editorial: Why it’s not such a wonderful life when real-time panic causes bank runs George Bailey knew how to fend off a bank run. When the citizens of Bedford Falls ran to the bank to demand a return of their deposits, they encountered George, in the form of Jimmy Stewart, guarding the vault with a moral lesson.
Fortune · Mar 15, 2023 SVB collapse may force the Fed to rethink interest rate hikes The Fed is wary of exacerbating any kind of financial fragility.
Al Jazeera · Mar 15, 2023 Why Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse put the spotlight on Trump The 2018 partial rollback of US’s Dodd-Frank is under renewed scrutiny following the failure of California-based lender.