Silicon Valley Bank failure could trigger run on US banks... and beyond

in crypto •  2 years ago 

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.

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  ·  2 years ago  ·  

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.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

Statement from Circle
An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
https://www.circle.com/blog/an-update-on-usdc-and-silicon-valley-bank

note

Few traditional banks have sufficient liquidity to withstand such a run.

SVB suffered significant losses which led to a situation where they were forced to sell long-duration assets to meet redemption demand. The settlement period on these assets caused a short-term liquidity crunch, leading to the FDIC stepping in to administer the bank yesterday. SVB’s fate is being decided this weekend by the FDIC and it's our hope that they will find a solution that protects customers’ assets 100%.

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!?

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

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

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the question is why didn't SVB use the same accountancy trick as Schwab? (above)
or borrow the "losses" and wait it out.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

another ugly chart


cause n effect, care of the Fed.
This was known.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

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.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

Who today could absorb a failing large regional bank? I am not an investment banker, but it seems fairly clear that the GSIBs are the only firms with the financial resources and capacity to do so. In other words, if a large regional bank were to fail today, the only viable option would be to sell it to one of the GSIBs. This is precisely what happened in 2008 when the FDIC resolved the failed Washington Mutual Bank, with approximately $300 billion in assets, through a P&A transaction with JPMorgan Chase & Co.

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/speeches/2022/pub-speech-2022-33.pdf

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

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??

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

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.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

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.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

As of March 10, the UK arm of SVB had loans of around £5.5 billion ($6.7 billion) and deposits of around £6.7 billion ($8.1 billion), HSBC said in an official announcement.

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.