The Latest Breaking News from SVB

Big banks are attracting more deposits–and putting money back into failing banks. A similar system existed in the run-up to the Great Depression.

Today, I was supposed to present the third article, Managing Household Debt, in the series "Changing Thailand". In fact, I have finished drafting a payment reduction model which could reduce monthly debt payments by 4.6 times without the hair-cutting debt principal or requiring government financial support. But I will delay…

Criticize the billionaires and the VCs all you want–but remember that they’re not the majority of depositors affected by the news.

In the early Eighties, when “High Tech” was still written with quotation marks and the region was starting to become known as The Silicon Valley, tennis buddies Bob Medearis and Bill Biggerstaff took their idea for a new bank to a poker game in Pajaro Dunes.

The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a regional US bank that funded start-up companies in the technology and innovation sector, has created a worldwide wave of financial instability.

Following an increase in interest rates, new start ups, old tech companies and SVB are facing hard times, says banking lecturer Maurizio Fiaschetti

As Silicon Valley Bank deteriorated late last year and regulators began internally flagging flaws in its risk management, the lender opened up the credit spigot to one group: insiders.

The Fed and other central banks want to bring down inflation at all costs. Is it worth it?

The failures of two U.S. banks this month meant losses for U.S. public-sector pension systems that invested in them