Welcome home, fellow Gator.

The Gator Nation's oldest and most active insider community
Join today!
  1. Hi there... Can you please quickly check to make sure your email address is up to date here? Just in case we need to reach out to you or you lose your password. Muchero thanks!

Silicon Valley Bank

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by oragator1, Mar 10, 2023.

  1. G8R92

    G8R92 GC Hall of Fame

    3,300
    372
    378
    Feb 5, 2010
    The "SVB Failure for Dummies" has been released...

    Ron DeSantis blames Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse on DEI
     
    • Funny Funny x 4
    • Informative Informative x 1
  2. G8tas

    G8tas GC Hall of Fame

    4,680
    941
    453
    Sep 22, 2008
    That's why it's best to keep your money under the mattress
     
  3. oragator1

    oragator1 Hurricane Hunter Premium Member

    23,307
    5,990
    3,513
    Apr 3, 2007
    • Winner Winner x 5
  4. ncargat1

    ncargat1 VIP Member

    14,461
    6,326
    3,353
    Dec 11, 2009
    New York State Regulators just seized Signature Bank according to Twitter.
     
  5. gatorchamps960608

    gatorchamps960608 GC Hall of Fame

    4,520
    942
    2,463
    Jul 4, 2020
    The SVB situation had nothing to do with wokeness. That's just stupid.

    Banks and other institutions are going to have to start figuring in, "social media panic" to their disaster scenarios where viral predictions of doom become self fulfilling.
     
    • Winner Winner x 2
    • Agree Agree x 1
  6. oragator1

    oragator1 Hurricane Hunter Premium Member

    23,307
    5,990
    3,513
    Apr 3, 2007
    Signature was a bank that catered to crypto companies
    . I get that you can’t pick winners and losers at this point, but the fact that we have to bail out the idiocy that has been crypto investing over the past 7 or 8 years is infuriating.
     
    • Winner Winner x 2
  7. oragator1

    oragator1 Hurricane Hunter Premium Member

    23,307
    5,990
    3,513
    Apr 3, 2007
    I don’t think you can model for that, because once it starts it’s total. The one suggestion I heard that makes sense today was forcing banks to mark their securities to market. Essentially you can account for a security as one held for investment, which means you can count all of the expected returns as an asset. But holding it for sale (m2m) means you have to price it to today’s market conditions. Bond values went down 20 percent or more and SVB had everything for priced investment…people started to see the delta if there were a run, and it became a self fulfilling prophecy.
     
    • Agree Agree x 1
  8. okeechobee

    okeechobee GC Hall of Fame

    10,832
    1,419
    678
    Sep 11, 2022
    Signature Bank was pretty big. What’s next?
     
  9. oragator1

    oragator1 Hurricane Hunter Premium Member

    23,307
    5,990
    3,513
    Apr 3, 2007
     
  10. okeechobee

    okeechobee GC Hall of Fame

    10,832
    1,419
    678
    Sep 11, 2022
    How long is that feasible? Hope it works.
     
  11. ncargat1

    ncargat1 VIP Member

    14,461
    6,326
    3,353
    Dec 11, 2009
    If DeSantis' horrific lack of understanding the banking system and finance is not exposed, and he is not destroyed for his stupidity, nothing is going to slow this idiot down (in before the DeSantis Goon Squads are sent to hunt people posting mean things about him!!).
     
    • Agree Agree x 4
  12. ncargat1

    ncargat1 VIP Member

    14,461
    6,326
    3,353
    Dec 11, 2009
    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/regulators-close-new-yorks-signature-bank-citing-systemic-risk.html
     
  13. ncargat1

    ncargat1 VIP Member

    14,461
    6,326
    3,353
    Dec 11, 2009
    Thanks for your posts and replies @RealGatorFan. I am the furthest thing from an expert here, but I do a LOT of research on things and work with both a financial advisor and tax accountants (father-in-law and wife) to try to understand the nuances of trying to protect our money.
     
  14. okeechobee

    okeechobee GC Hall of Fame

    10,832
    1,419
    678
    Sep 11, 2022
    Well, it appears it no longer matters. As long as the regulator steps in swiftly, the federal deposit insurance is now uncapped for all.
     
  15. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

    32,420
    12,161
    3,693
    Aug 26, 2008
    Currently $650B in unrealized losses in the major banks due to banks holding bonds.
     
  16. G8tas

    G8tas GC Hall of Fame

    4,680
    941
    453
    Sep 22, 2008
    I haven't really followed this story. I just want to know what the count is on right wingers blaming this on "woke" banks
     
    • Agree Agree x 1
  17. ncargat1

    ncargat1 VIP Member

    14,461
    6,326
    3,353
    Dec 11, 2009
    DeSantis is #1, and he apparently understands less about banking than I do.
     
    • Agree Agree x 4
    • Like Like x 1
    • Funny Funny x 1
  18. oragator1

    oragator1 Hurricane Hunter Premium Member

    23,307
    5,990
    3,513
    Apr 3, 2007
    First republic got money from JPMC and the fed.
    That might move the next domino far enough away that that the next one won’t fall.
    We will see tomorrow.
     
  19. okeechobee

    okeechobee GC Hall of Fame

    10,832
    1,419
    678
    Sep 11, 2022
    Yikes. What a shit show.
     
  20. gtr2x

    gtr2x GC Hall of Fame

    16,641
    1,537
    1,393
    Aug 21, 2007
    Mismanaging interest rate risk is now "woke:":rolleyes:o_O

    Seems like either management was clueless or simply lied about their interest rate risk exposure . I thought this kind of mismanagement went out with the S&L collapses, guess not.

    I'd say the CEO needs a good lawyer also given his stock transactions.
     
    • Winner Winner x 2
    • Optimistic Optimistic x 1