SVB Chief Pressed Lawmakers to Weaken Bank Risk Regulations

Re:SVB Chief Pressed Lawmakers to Weaken Bank Risk Regulations by sillybov3456 on Saturday March 11, 2023 @01:53PM (#35111345)

Respectfully, it's not. Choosing a bank is an aspect of risk management, the act of throwing all your money into whatever thing that calls itself a bank and is most convenient is not risk management, it's risky behavior.

Risk management would be asking the question "should I be putting all my eggs in a basket that seems very tied to the tech economy / northern California real estate market / low interest rates?". Diversification would be trying to get the money you use to pay your tech workers invested in something as far away from tech as possible.

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Re:SVB Chief Pressed Lawmakers to Weaken Bank Risk Regulations by nouveaux on Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:48PM (#35111935)

Putting money in a bank is a form of risk management. A startup can choose to:

* Buy expensive office equipment or put it in a bank

* Go on a hiring spree or put it in a bank

* Acquire another company or put it in a bank

* Put money in crypto or put it in a bank

Shopping for a bank might mitigate a bit more of your risk. Putting it inside of a bank is low risk compared to the many things you can do with money.

Hundreds of thousands of businesses store more than $250k in a bank and for most of them, the largest risk to their business is not their bank.

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