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SVB, the banking crisis and climatetech

Catalyst with Shayle Kann

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SVB's Acquisition of a Low Rate Bank

SVB had 60 billion of deposits in 19, is that year end 19, 100 billion in 2020, 190 at year end 2021. And they were at about 175 at year end 22. What happened was the asset side of SVB's book couldn't keep up. So what did they do? They went out and bought other people's loans. When rates go up, the value of loans and bonds goes down. This is happening to every bank.

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