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In the end, Silvergate Bank didn’t survive. But its executives were able to avoid taking government assistance. Silvergate Capital’s share price is down 83% since March 1, the day the bank said it was unable to file its annual report. But with shareholders taking the hit – not depositors or
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Silvergate had operated as a gateway for more than 1,000 “institutional crypto market participants including major crypto exchanges, miners, stablecoin issuers, market makers and digital asset fund managers that have been using its network to transfer fiat currency between their Silvergate accounts and the accounts of other Silvergate customers,” analysts
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There were numerous signs of the crypto bank’s problems, but nobody seemed to notice. Angelo Calvello says you shouldn't use traditional investment metrics to assess a non-traditional company. Source
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Ailing crypto-friendly bank Silvergate closed its instant settlement SEN platform last week, which has been a key on-ramp for institutional crypto investors to transfer U.S. dollars to exchanges. Source
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Silvergate Bank’s (SI) woes, including the shutdown of its crypto lending platform, SEN, aren’t necessarily moving the price of bitcoin (BTC), Hany Rashwan, CEO of cryptocurrency company 21.co, said. Rather, he attributed recent price levels to macroeconomic factors. Source
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Silvergate identified the number of digital-assets customers it was working with each quarter, and that crowd steadily rose to 1,620 last quarter – most of those identified as institutional investors, though more than 100 were "digital asset exchanges." However, those crypto customers' deposits plummeted from almost $12 billion in the
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The price of the crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital’s shares fell by over 40% after it reported a more than $8 billion drop in customer deposits. The share price plunge came just days after U.S. prosecutors reportedly seized collapsed crypto exchange FTX’s accounts held at the bank. Alan Lane, the CEO
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Outside of the lending activities, Silvergate also has high flying crypto firms as corporate banking customers through its Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN) Leverage program, which issues U.S. dollar loans using bitcoin as collateral. Some of the companies in the SEN network include Coinbase (COIN), the now-defunct FTX, Paxos, Crypto.com, Gemini,
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Silvergate Capital’s planned stablecoin could benefit from the distribution and potential partnerships with Diem Association members and other money service providers, Wedbush analysts said in a note following news of the crypto firm’s deal to buy assets of Meta's Diem. Source
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