Regional bank shares rose sharply on Tuesday amid easing fears over a broader financial crisis triggered by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week.
began after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank – the 16th largest in the country – on Friday afternoon following a liquidity crunch. It marked the largest U.S. bank failure since the global financial crisis in 2008.
SVB – which largely catered to tech companies, venture capital firms and high-net-worth individuals – saw a huge boom in deposits during the pandemic. The bank responded by investing a large chunk of that cash into long-term U.S. Treasury bonds and other mortgage-backed securities. However, that strategy backfired when the Federal Reserve embarked on the most aggressive interest-rate hike campaign since the 1980s and the value of those securities tumbled.
That coincided with a decline in available funding for startups, which started drawing down more of their money to cover their expenses, forcing the lender to sell part of its bond holds at a steep $1.8 billion loss. When depositors realized that SVB was in a precarious financial situation, a bank run ensued. "While SVB’s duration mismatch and its concentration of undiversified depositors may seem unique, numerous U.S.
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