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Barr said the bank was a “textbook case of mismanagement.” And its government minders were well aware it had serious problems. In 2021, the supervisors found issues with its liquidity management, and in 2022, they determined an array of problems with board oversight, risk management and internal auditing, Barr said.
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The U.S. government and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are auctioning off two failed American financial institutions, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank (SNBY), this week, with bids due by March 17. However, sources familiar with the matter said the qualifications to purchase the banks are stringent, and
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The report comes amid a series of bank collapses that happened over the past few days. Crypto asset manager BlockTower Capital may be the latest victim of the recent collapse of some major banks across the United States. According to a CoinDesk report, four private funds of BlockTower worth about $940
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According to a report that began circulating on March 11 in the aftermath of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), prominent blockchain venture capitalists (VCs) have over $6 billion worth of assets held by the now-defunct financial entity. These include $2.85 billion from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), $1.72 billion from
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Silicon Valley Bank, one of the reserve banking partner for Circle's USDC stablecoin, was shut down by regulators on Friday. Source
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Yes, SVB was tech-forward and, while not necessarily “crypto-friendly,” it did bank crypto hedge funds and VCs like Blockchain Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Dragonfly and Pantera (oh, and even CoinDesk). SVB didn’t fail because of any of these businesses. Even though it might make sense to be critical of depositor
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The full list of banks that held cash for Circle’s USDC are Bank of New York Mellon, Citizens Trust Bank, Customers Bank, New York Community Bank (a division of Flagstar Bank, N.A.), Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Silvergate Bank. Circle also keeps some part of USDC reserves in a
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"Given the dearth of record-keeping, it may not be possible to fully reconstruct the intercompany Claim," the statement said. "If it were at all possible, it would be a time and cost intensive forensic accounting exercise that would likely require the engagement of a forensic accounting firm to manually reconstruct
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In a later interview with CryptoX Campbell said while unintentional, "I think the problem is that it is the world [federal regulators] have created, and it's important to surface that point." While U.S.-licensed companies are getting "smacked around," offshore companies like Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, are "just
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According to a new post on Jan. 26, Marc Zeller, integrations lead at decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Aave, stated that the firm purchased 2.7 million Curve (CRV) tokens, which would clear “excessive remaining bad debt” within the next 15 hours over a dozen transactions. The move follows the community
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