Panic In The Banking System
The Macro Trading Floor
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The CEO and the CRO of a Silicon Valley Bank Have Been Selling Equity Over the Past Few Weeks
Silicon Valley Bank started selling equity over the past few weeks here and on top of that you point to them not having a chief risk officer in place currently. It's quite interesting for a bank with an assets size worth of is it 220 billion there about US dollars but also interesting that they've constantly kept themselves just below the bar of the regulatory threshold of 250 billion if you're above 250 billion liquidity coverage ratios etc kicks in. The biggest so-called systematically important banks in the US are the one with the heaviest heaviest layers of regulation of all Silicon Valley Bank with I think a little bit more than 200 billion as balance sheet size.
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