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Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by tigershark on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:05AM (#35132550)
No, it didn’t have a liquidity problem, it was insolvent. The value of all its assets marked to market are less than its liabilities.
Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by Lionga on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:14AM (#35132622)
Not if you let them do their shenanigans to let the assets be on the balance sheet on "face" value because they are in a "HTM" portfolio and not on the real market value. Many of the other banks are silently insolvent too, just the simple little account trick keeping them afloat.

That's whats need to be changed, not a bail out of which more will follow

Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by boxed on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:52AM (#35135027)
Well... I guess. But the price of many of those assets were low because of the run right? So it's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Banks that buy SVBs branches will be making money off that deal I think. Not short term obviously, but long term.