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> FDIC insurance exists for this reason Good luck to all the startups that might have just lost anything they had in SVB over $250k.
by flutas 4y ago
> FDIC insurance exists for this reason
Good luck to all the startups that might have just lost anything they had in SVB over $250k.
- vkou 4y agoFDIC being involved doesn't actually mean you lose everything above 250k. Assuming that the bank's problem was liquidity, and not fraud, it's very likely that no depositor will end up taking a haircut.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> It's quite possible that no depositor will end up taking a haircut. It's possible that uninsured deposits will eventually be recovered at full value, but losing access to depository funds is itself a loss which often has a very real costs, and when the Depository Insurance National Bank taking SVBs place opens no later than Monday, uninsured depositors are going to only have a claim against the potential realized value of SVB assets beyond what is necessary to cover the insured deposits, while insured depositors will have access to actual money in actual deposit accounts in an actual (solvent) bank.