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Its demise on Friday, which has left customers fearful of losing deposits totaling tens of billions of dollars, is eclipsed only by the failure of Washington Mutual in 2008, which had assets of $307 billion when it went into receivership. California banking regulators closed the bank, which did business as Silicon Valley Bank, and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver for the later disposition of its assets. Investors in other regional banks such as First Republic Bank quickly jumped ship, with the firms' share prices tanking upwards of 50 percent Friday before recovering to 14.8 percent at market close. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis played a shocking video at the start of his press conference Wednesday containing sexually explicit content illustrated and detailed in children's books found at various schools in Florida SVB Financial Group is working with an investment bank and home school Second Grade Homework Help tutor a law firm to find buyers for its other assets, which include SVB Securities, read Reuters reported on Friday, adding that these assets could attract competitors and private equity firms.
(Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; editing by Grant McCool and Paul Simao) Even so, signs of market unease have grown in recent days: the S&P 500 fell 4.6% this week, nearly erasing its gains for the year, while the Cboe Volatility Index, known as Wall Street´s fear gauge, surged to its highest level in 3 months. Yields on two-year Treasuries saw their biggest plunge since the 2008 financial crisis. That suggests a flight to safety among investors as well as bets that economic distress may force the Fed to ease up or reverse its aggressive tightening.
Rippling, a human resources management firm that handles, among other assets, payrolls for other institutions, announced it was unable to immediately pay its clients' employees due to the market turmoil. The firm's CEO, Parker Conrad, said on Twitter that employees reliant on its systems were not paid on time, including employees who hold accounts with the largest bank in the United States - JP Morgan Chase. He's not actually competed that much on the tour but, when he has done, he's always performed really well.
I think he's going to be a top, top player for a long time, providing he stays healthy. It will be a good match.' March 11 (Reuters) - The managers of Silicon Valley Bank's investment banking arm, SVB Securities, are exploring ways to buy the collapsed lender back from its parent company, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. In the latest, Stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) lost its dollar peg and slumped to an all-time low after Circle, the U.S. firm behind the coin, revealed that a chunk of the reserves backing it were held at Silicon Valley Bank.
The ripple effect has already hit similar institutions, such as New York's Signature Bank, which saw its share price plummet 23 percent before trading was halted when the news of SVB's demise came in.
