Gizmodo : Economy

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.

Gizmodo : Economy

In the wake of the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, the failure in question, Silicon Valley Bank, has some comforting words amongst the turmoil. Clients of the bank received an email last night from SVB’s new CEO Tim Mayopoulos stating that everything is fine.

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Gizmodo : Economy

The U.S. government swooped in on Sunday to save the tech industry’s favorite bank, announcing that it would ensure all depositors in Silicon Valley Bank had full access to their money by Monday. Silicon Valley Bank is the second-largest bank to fail in U.S. history.

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