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Silicon Valley Bank

Former major lender to technology startups and venture capital firms that collapsed in March 2023; its assets were acquired by First Citizens Bank.

Known aliases

  • Silicon Valley Bank Technology and Healthcare Banking
  • SVB
  • SVB Global Fund Banking

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

Bowman says Basel and the FSB lifted language from flawed US reports on Silicon Valley Bank

Michelle Bowman, the Fed's Vice Chair for Supervision, told a Bangkok audience that other countries should copy her three supervisory changes. She also chairs an FSB committee, so the criticism of Basel and the FSB comes from a member with a seat.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap
Not scored
Incentives70
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Fortune column pins the worst Treasury month in four years on Warsh's hawkish Fed

Kevin Warsh's hawkish Fed sent the 10-year Treasury yield up more than half a point to about 5.3% in September, a Fortune column argues. Its own account of traders dumping long bonds describes the term premium it dismisses, with the Fed as the cause.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
investOne report1 publisher

Erebor's $7 billion deposit surge tests its capital before its cash

Erebor, the Palmer Luckey-backed national bank, has taken in more than $7 billion of deposits, and its June filing showed $77.8 million of loans. Its cash would cover a Silvergate-sized run, so the tighter limit on its growth is the 12% leverage floor the OCC set.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption60
Hype gap+15
Incentives40
Confidence55
scienceConfirmed5 publishers

Circle urges the EU to replace MiCA's bank-deposit minimum for stablecoin reserves

Circle told the European Commission that only 3 of the world's top 25 stablecoins are authorized under MiCA, in its response to the law's review. Circle issues two of the three, and it ties the gap to bank-deposit and concentration rules it wants loosened.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 42%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption30
Hype gap+20
Incentives80
Confidence65
leadershipOne report1 publisher

FCA turns to international regulators as Polymarket takes bets on HSBC and Lloyds failing

Polymarket has taken $77,507 in positions on whether the world's biggest banks, HSBC and Lloyds among them, fail by year-end. For British lenders the exposure is how fast that price could travel on social media during a period of stress.

Publishers:theguardian.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption10
Hype gap+35
Incentives60
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Starling's SVB review says private messages, mobile banking accelerated-but didn't cause-2023 run

The first report from the Fed's outside review of its own Silicon Valley Bank supervision backs most of what three earlier audits found, but clears the social media posts blamed in 2023 of creating the condition depositors ran from.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption12
Hype gap−10
Incentives60
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

General Catalyst wants founders to stop funding sales and marketing with equity

The firm's case rests on one comparison, that Microsoft's founders held almost four-fifths of their company at IPO while most founders now hold under a fifth.

Publishers:generalcatalyst.com

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+38
Incentives92
Confidence60
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Horizon3's twenty-year apprenticeship bought a hiring list and a personal credit line

A $250 million round pushed the AI pentesting company above $2 billion. The clearest return on Snehal Antani's two decades inside IBM, GE Capital, Splunk and JSOC is who he could hire and what he could borrow.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption55
Hype gap+25
Incentives72
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

First Citizens retires the SVB brand that banked nearly half the US venture-backed startup base

The October rollout renames Innovation Banking, Fund Banking and SVB Go, promises that routing numbers and passwords are untouched, and says nothing at all about the advance rates or covenants operators hoped to read in it.

Publishers:saastr.com

Reality

Evidence57
Adoption31
Hype gap+14
Incentives66
Confidence54
investOne report1 publisher

Michaud's deposit thesis returns the funding to banks, not necessarily the credit risk

KBW chief Tom Michaud says higher rates and Washington's turn will pull deposit stability back to banks. His own warning about contagious digital runs cuts the other way.

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+34
Incentives74
Confidence36
investOne report1 publisher

Two ways to win at $50 billion, and neither label explains the margins

Capital Performance Group split the top-performing large banks into spread lenders and fee-based wealth managers. The wealth firm posted the wider net interest margin.

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption61
Hype gap+14
Incentives57
Confidence62
leadershipOne report1 publisher

When capital shrinks, investors buy comparables. Everyone else pitches into a void.

U.S. VC fundraising fell almost 20% year over year to its lowest level since 2019, per SVB. Outside the AI trade, the market slide is now doing the underwriting work.

Publishers:entrepreneur.com

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+32
Incentives76
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

Second Circuit puts Signature's executives and KPMG back on the hook

The appeals court held that FIRREA's succession clause does not give the FDIC a monopoly on claims arising from a failed bank, reviving a class action led by Sweden's AP7.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

The Home Loan banks just became a political variable, not a funding constant

House Democrats spent an oversight hearing questioning whether the Federal Home Loan Bank System should exist. Treasurers who model advance capacity as fixed now have a coefficient to add.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+34
Incentives74
Confidence38