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SVB, the banking crisis and climatetech

Catalyst with Shayle Kann

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The Importance of Holding Out of the Bank

"It's like the lightning fast forward button. An explosion," says John Defterios, founder and CEO of The Climate Institute. "When they told their companies to pull out, it all happened very fast." SBB bought loans with low interest rates, interest rates in the market went up. That means the value of that loan book goes down but banks didn't have to mark that decline if they were going to hold those loans to maturity.

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