Silicon Valley Bank failure could trigger run on U.S. regional banks
We've been here before; no, not 2008, go further back 100 years. Systemic and systematic bank failures were the cause of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. It only took the banksters a decade to then create the stockmarket crash of 1929, and the subsequent Depression. Interesting how the debt-based-fiat economy is so dependent upon usury as the driver of productive activities. The biggest con on humanity is convincing people that this is "normal". It also drives all the other huge cons, such as corporate science and education, as poverty is a lever of fear.
Silicon Valley Bank's UK branch shut down by Bank of England
Bank of England statement: Silicon Valley Bank UK
Notice that no actual reasons are stated, and that the BoE considers SVB UK as having "a limited presence in the UK and no critical functions supporting the financial system."
Meanwhile, a Mar. 11 Castle Hill report revealed that prominent blockchain VCs have over $6 billion worth of assets held by the now-defunct financial entity [SVBUK].
There is absolutely no experimental proof validating the hypothesis that pathogenic viruses can be transmitted from person to person. If you hold this belief, try looking it up - away from the propagandist scifids.
In contrast, the chains of financial obligations do create effects both up and down stream. As profits beget profits, so losses can create further losses as defaults beget further defaults. And this is all part of the bankster cartels that keep telling us how prudent and safe they are; so safe that most banks have barely enough reserves to cover a base interest rate hike. As solid as building on quicksand.
Regulators rush to sell SVB assets to make uninsured accounts partly available on Monday: Bloomberg
Somewhat like telling a bus to stop its engine, and then distribute the fuel to each passenger - thereby nobody reaches their destination.
Statement from Circle
An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
https://www.circle.com/blog/an-update-on-usdc-and-silicon-valley-bank
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It still smells that they were unable to raise what amounted to 0.5% of their assets. Isn't that one of the functions of the Fed? lender of last resort!?
read the comments
I still don't understand how they could fuck up on such an obvious thing as NOT holding long-dated bonds while base rates are increasing.
banking 101.
idiots
USDC slowly repegs on unconfirmed reports of SVB resolution
the question is why didn't SVB use the same accountancy trick as Schwab? (above)
or borrow the "losses" and wait it out.
another ugly chart
cause n effect, care of the Fed.
This was known.
This looks like an internal failure of knowing how to run a bank!!
How did they ever get to BE a bank?
This isn't gloating after the crash, just look at how USDT and USDC manage their treasuries - all short-dated so as NOT to get screwed by interest rate hikes.
https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/speeches/2022/pub-speech-2022-33.pdf
well, fk me, Schiff is correct about something!
ok, as he admits, he's been saying this for years.
Thing is, why have banks been holding on to their crashing long-dated T bonds??
Here's how banks do it - big banks!
hide the loss, call it HTM (held to maturity), then amortise the current losses over that period. tada!!
If long enough and rates fall again, then the amortisation gets adjusted, and may even be a profit in a few years.
HSBC Acquires Silicon Valley Bank UK for £1 to Safeguard Customers and Taxpayers – What's Going On?
safeguard = steal
HSBC is one of the BIG global banks at the centre of the money-web.
erm... so why steal it?
This is going to be global = fewer banks and fewer currencies.
Let's see the first central bank to fold and be swallowed by a larger neighbour.