Tech companies that banked at SVB are wondering when they're going to be able to pay employees and their bills after Friday's collapse.
But the process is much more convoluted for uninsured depositors. They'll receive a dividend within a week covering an undetermined amount of their money and a "receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds."
Clients with uninsured funds — anything over $250,000 — don't know what to do. Gilbert said he's advising portfolio companies individually, instead of sending out a mass email, because every situation is different. He said the universal concern is meeting payroll for March 15. Rippling, a back office-focused startup, handles payroll services for many tech companies. On Friday morning, the company sent a note to clients telling them that, because of the SVB news, it was moving "key elements of our payments infrastructure" to"You need to inform your bank immediately about an important change to the way Rippling debits your account," the memo said. "If you do not make this update, your payments, including payroll, will fail.
"Our top priority is to get our customers' employees paid as soon as we possibly can, and we're working diligently toward that on all available channels, and trying to learn what the FDIC takeover means for today's payments," Conrad wrote.
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