Silicon Valley Bank UK has been sold to HSBC in a bid to prevent a potential banking crisis after the bank\’s historic failure. The UK Treasury and the Bank of England announced the purchase of the bank, guaranteeing the safety of £6.7bn of deposits. The purchase came after UK officials worked tirelessly over the weekend […]
California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which specialised in financing tech startups, has collapsed, reportedly after a flawed capital raise and deposit withdrawals. The bank held $209bn in assets and $175.4bn in deposits. Nearly half of all tech and life sciences firms in the US that received funding were said to bank with SVB. The bank\’s collapse […]
Governments in the US and UK have taken steps to prevent a potential banking crisis after the failure of California-based Silicon Valley Bank, which had over $200bn in assets and catered to tech startups, venture capital firms, and well-paid technology workers. Regulators in the US rushed to close Silicon Valley Bank on Friday when it […]
The assets of Silicon Valley Bank’s Canadian branch have been temporarily seized by Canada’s banking regulator after the bank\’s collapse last week. US banking regulators were forced to close the bank after large sums were withdrawn by worried depositors, which has raised concerns about other banks that cater to the technology sector companies. The Office […]
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has caused a ripple effect in global financial markets, with investors downgrading their forecasts for further interest rate rises and selling bank stocks globally. Government bond prices have soared, with fund managers betting that the US Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates at its next scheduled monetary policy […]