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Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure: Lessons for Private Business Owners and Directors

Chris Mercer

Silicon Valley Bank was taken over, or at least substantial assets and liabilities were assumed, by First Citizens Bank & Trust Company (Raleigh, North Carolina). What caused SVB to fail? Was it just the long-term Treasury Securities that everyone has talked about. A Short Digression from SVB? What really happened?

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SVB Parent Forms Restructuring Committee After Collapse

Law 360 M&A

The parent company of now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank said Monday its board has created a restructuring committee to explore "strategic alternatives" for itself and two of its business units, SVB Capital and SVB Securities.

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Jamie Dimon’s Chairman & CEO Letter to Shareholders

Harvard Corporate Governance

Banking Turmoil and Regulatory Goals The recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States and Credit Suisse in Europe, and the related stress in the banking system, underscore that simply satisfying regulatory requirements is not sufficient.

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Neoleukin Therapeutics To Merge With Neurogene: Creates Biotech Firm Focused On Genetic Medicines For Neurological Diseases

Benzinga

In March, Neoleukin Therapeutics engaged SVB Securities to assist in reviewing strategic alternatives and announced a further corporate restructuring to preserve cash, including reducing its workforce by approximately 70%.

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How Bank Regulation and Supervision Can Weaken Financial Stability

Reynolds Holding

Indeed, firms are required under the securities laws to disclose material nonpublic information, at least when they raise capital. For example, in the SVB case, if much more had been known earlier about the bank positions, uninsured deposits, etc., Again, SVB is a good illustration. Given periodic banking crises in the U.S.,

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Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis

Musings on Markets

In addition, banks can also invest some of the cash in securities, usually fixed-income, and with varying maturities and degrees of default risk, again earning income from these holdings. The first is the duration of these securities , relative to the duration of the deposit base, with a greater mismatch associated with more risk.

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Davis Polk Discusses the Federal Reserve OIG Report on Silicon Valley Bank Failure

Reynolds Holding

It does not blame regulatory tailoring for reduced supervisory intensity, except when SVB had assets between $50-$100 billion. 2 The Barr Report was essentially a self-assessment by the supervisory staff of the root causes of SVB’s failure, including deficiencies in risk management and the staff’s own supervision of SVB.

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