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The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank

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The Rapid Collapse of the 16th Largest Bank in America

By Marc Rubinstein, 3-10-23

“When you’re not working, what do you do to de-stress?” 

That was the last question Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, fielded at an investor conference on Tuesday this week. 

“Cycling is my advice,” he replied. “Living in Northern California and being on the peninsula. That’s just—I think it’s the best bike-riding cycling in the world, period.”

Three days later, Becker’s bank is in receivership. 


We’ve talked before about the interest rate risk that lurks on banks’ balance sheets and how the industry manages it. During the pandemic, banks took in record volumes of new deposits. Between the end of 2019 and the first quarter of 2022, deposits at US banks rose by $5.40 trillion. With loan demand weak, only around 15% of that volume was channelled towards loans; the rest was invested in securities portfolios or kept as cash. Securities portfolios ballooned to $6.26 trillion, up from $3.98 trillion at the end of 2019, and cash balances went up to $3.38 trillion from $1.67 trillion.

When banks purchase securities, they are forced to decide up-front whether they intend to hold them to maturity. The decision dictates whether the securities are designated as “held-to-maturity” (HTM) assets or as “available-for-sale” (AFS) assets. HTM assets are not marked to market: Banks can look on nonchalantly as bonds lose value; they remain glued to balance sheets at amortised cost regardless. By contrast, AFS assets are marked-to-market—a purer designation but one that injects an element of volatility into a bank’s capital base. For smaller banks, regulators look through this volatility but for banks with over $700 billion in assets, that volatility directly impacts regulatory capital

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Related:

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/banking

http://click1.e.reason.com/ViewMessage.do;jsessionid=7B113DFE6BE178F74D43FD83FAD55530

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11855685/Silicon-Valley-Bank-185-1-debt-asset-ratio-flagged-February-tech-experts-newsletter.html?ico=related-replace

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11855245/CFO-Lehman-Brothers-worked-SVB-risk-manager-worked-Deutsche-Bank.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11854659/Billionaire-Bill-Ackman-says-economy-not-function-without-regional-banks-trading-halted.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/84756400-5cf6-3282-bc91-bf3f57b95be5/three-u-s-banks-down-one.html

Silicon Valley Bank donated over $73 MILLION to Black Lives Matter-related social justice groups before it collapsed

https://www.vox.com/technology/23634433/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-silvergate-first-republic-fdic

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