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Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire to save crypto following the collapse of some major mainstream banks, including Silicon Valley Bank. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire recently disclosed that the USDC stablecoin issuer wants to save crypto from fallen banks. In an interview, Allaire touched on the adjustments the peer-to-peer payments technology company made following Silicon Valley
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A class action lawsuit was filed against Signature Bank in February, alleging that the bank knew about – and facilitated – the “now infamous FTX fraud.” Specifically, the suit accuses Signature Bank of having knowledge of and permitting “the commingling of FTX customer funds within its proprietary, blockchain-based payments network, Signet.” Source
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In the wake of three major banks with ties to crypto firms collapsing, software engineer Molly White believes companies now looking at banking options may have to face “shadier” solutions.Speaking on March 14 at a South by Southwest (SXSW) panel in Austin, Texas on ‘Popping the Web3 Bubble’, White opined
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Last week, Silvergate Bank, a California firm that catered to crypto companies, said it would “voluntarily liquidate” and shut down. Days later, tech startup-focused firm Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which had some crypto clients, was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which said the bank had
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The Federal Reserve Board reduced banking reserve requirements to zero in March 2020. Since that time, banks in the United States have not been required to actually hold any depositor money in the bank, making a flawed system — fractional reserve banking — worse. With Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and
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There are a few clear reasons for that. Most notably, most crypto leaders come from a tech, rather than finance, background, and haven't put much of their youth into studying the history of finance to date. So enthralled by the beauty of blockchain as a technology, such founders forget that
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After the failure of three major U.S. banks last week, with two of them being the second and third largest banking failures in the country, Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the rating of the U.S. banking system from “stable” to “negative.” As one of the “Big Three” credit rating firms,
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This week on The Market Report, the resident experts at Cointelegraph discuss all the details regarding the latest bank collapse and the USD Coin (USDC) depeg.We kick things off with this week’s top storiesSilicon Valley Bank collapse: Everything that’s happened until nowThe sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has
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Over the last week, the collapse of three of the largest banks backing the crypto scene — Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank — has many industry pundits wondering how United States-based crypto companies will fare after such losses.While it has been said that there is “nobody
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Moody’s also put the ratings of six other banks in the US under review. Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the debt ratings of recently collapsed Signature Bank (NASDAQ: SBNY) to junk amid the happenings in the US banking sector. Signature Bank began to lose its shares following the demise of
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