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Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank by roflyear on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:59PM (#35100044)
> 3. If spreading out your 6- or 7-figure assets to multiple institutions is too much of a burden, literally every business bank has special accounts or add-on features that either raise the FDIC default limit of 250k, or supplement it with external insurance. Again, if any startup's financial handlers didn't recommend this: fire them because they entirely failed to do their job.

Contractual obligations often prevent this, btw. Many SVB customers had loans with SVB, which prevented them from using other banks.

Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank by drewbeck on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:10PM (#35102591)
Wow, is this common? From a systems perspective it seems like pure folly, increasing systemic risk and reducing resilience. (from SVB’s perspective I’m sure it seemed great …) it feels like it should be illegal !
Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank by roflyear on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:02PM (#35103803)
I asked a handful of people with experience in those things and they all said it is very common. I was very surprised as well.