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Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank by SilasX on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:49PM (#35099087)
>Duration risk is risk.

Correct, but the GP’s point was that it was not “startup creditworthiness risk”, the thing SVB was most ridiculed for taking on.

Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank by makomk on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:44PM (#35100749)
Yeah, arguably duration risk is pretty much the stogiest, most old-fashioned banking kind of risk that could possibly have tripped them up. Long-term loans and short-term deposits is basically what banks traditionally do.