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The entity that once owned the poor, beleaguered Silicon Valley Bank, the main banking house for numerous tech-focused firms and venture capitalists, is officially holding up a white flag as it suddenly declared bankruptcy.
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Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time.