When the going gets tough...

HeavyG

https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1635042240543461377

Supposedly no taxpayer money will be involved.

I guess Jason will sleep well tonight knowing that he'll gladly change his beliefs when they might cause him pain. I hate these kind of libertarian/anti-reg hypocrites. I GUESS HIS BANK BALANCE WAS $9,999,999.

HeavyG

https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1635090262581215233

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1635092401701416960

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead

HeavyG said:

https://twitter.com/uspsveteran/status/1634321071800451072

These things are not remotely equivalent.

JohnInCarolina

HeavyG

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1635808260056858625

JohnInCarolina

@HeavyG - amazing.  Couldn’t have happened to a better person.

lousubcap

I will readily admit that I woke up from a deep sleep this AM.  And hopefully that trend continues as it has for several decades. 

Nothing like being under prepared for a very obvious question.  Well, "I just woke up!" When you can't define your issue, then what is the real issue lurking...?

Botch

HeavyG said:

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1635808260056858625

Why in the hell can't some reporter ask this same question of the ron desantis's of the world?  Live?  

HeavyG

KPMG Gave SVB, Signature Bank Clean Bill of Health Weeks Before Collapse

"Everything is fine, nothing to see here..."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/kpmg-faces-scrutiny-for-audits-of-svb-and-signature-bank-42dc49dd?st=dwjggxfsdgeuqlw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

JohnInCarolina

“title wave”

Legume

Title wave 👏

dmchicago

She trolling. 

Canugghead

it's

HeavyG

European regulators criticise US ‘incompetence’ over Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Link is paywalled: https://www.ft.com/content/5e4a8dde-c053-4510-8cd9-8aecb9082a6e  so...

Europe’s financial regulators are furious at the handling of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, privately accusing US authorities of tearing up a rule book for failed banks that they had helped to write.

While the disapproval has yet to be conveyed in a formal setting, some of the region’s top policymakers are seething over the decision to cover all depositors at SVB, fearing it will undermine a globally agreed regime.

One senior eurozone official described their shock at the “total and utter incompetence” of US authorities, particularly after a decade and a half of “long and boring meetings” with Americans advocating an end to bailouts.

Europe’s supervisors are particularly irate at the US decision to break with its own standard of guaranteeing only the first $250,000 of deposits by invoking a “systemic risk exception”(opens a new window) — despite claiming the California-based lender was too small to face rules aimed at preventing a rerun of the 2008 global financial crisis.

“This is the US version of the small Venetian banks,” said one French policy expert, referring to the US’s criticism of Europe’s handling of the Monte dei Paschi debacle. “You are always systemic for somebody.”

“From a financial stability perspective, they really killed a fly with a sledgehammer,” said Nicolas Véron, a regulation expert at the Washington think-tank the Peterson Institute. 

Designating SVB as systemic was, Véron added, a “very questionable” decision that set a dangerous precedent for further bailouts of uninsured deposits.

A former senior UK policymaker who helped negotiate global standards for bank resolution described the SVB handling as a “disaster”.

The 2008 crisis triggered a sea change in how to handle the collapse of banks, with policymakers meeting often at the Basel-based headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements to create regimes designed to(opens a new window) minimise the wider fallout from failures.

Central to those regimes was imposing losses on owners, bondholders and other unsecured creditors, including depositors with funds exceeding their country’s guarantee limit.

The US was a key proponent of such policies, according to people who took part in talks. However — unlike EU and UK lenders of a similar size — US banks with balance sheets below $250bn, including SVB, are deemed too small to have to comply with global standards on capital, liquidity and resolution.

While the Federal Reserve is now considering tougher rules for midsized lenders, in 2019 it and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were behind the relaxation of resolution regimes for banks with assets ranging from $50bn to $250bn.

The Systemic Risk Council, a body of former senior regulators, warned(opens a new window) the Fed’s chair Jay Powell and the former head of the FDIC Jelena McWilliams against the move, saying it was “unclear that all of the affected banking businesses could be resolved in an orderly way”.

“If ever a large regional bank failed, that uncertainty creates the possibility of the authorities resorting to a taxpayer bailout in order to contain disruption to the regional and national economy and losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund,” the letter, authored by then SRC chair and former Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker, stressed.

The US has claimed SVB’s failure will not hit taxpayers because other banks will cover the cost of bailing out uninsured depositors — over and above what can be recouped from the lender’s assets.

However, a European regulator said that claim was a “joke”, as US banks were likely to pass the cost on to their customers. “At the end of the day, this is a bailout paid for by the ordinary people and it’s a bailout of the rich venture capitalists which is really wrong,” he said.

Despite the lack of formal disapproval, Europeans’ fury is being felt on the other side of the Atlantic.

“The risk to global financial regulatory co-operation is that this episode reinforces lingering suspicions that when times get tough the US won’t adhere to globally agreed reforms,” said Matt Swinehart, a former US treasury official and managing director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, a consultancy in Washington.

Others, however, are more understanding of Washington’s approach, arguing that not fully bailing out depositors would have risked broader peril.

“If unsecured depositors are not protected it can be the overall confidence that is eroded and you can easily be creating contagion to other banks,” said a resolution head at a eurozone regulator. “This case seems to be the perfect proof of this.”

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1637184825382559761?s=20

Kayak

JohnInCarolina said:

http://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1637184825382559761?s=20

I don't know, seems like a pretty big story to me? Maybe not new, as it was broken back in the early '90s when Senior Bush was trying to get re-elected. Back then the story was successfully directed into conspiracy territory. Now that the New York Times is willing to publish, it has to be true.

dmchicago

I can’t…

dbCooper

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1634183427954991105?s=20

Legume

That mom's group setup shop locally here. Reactions haven't been good, but if they have an organized roadmap and script, they'll be more effective than whining on NextDoor.

HeavyG

Legume said:

That mom's group setup shop locally here. Reactions haven't been good, but if they have an organized roadmap and script, they'll be more effective than whining on NextDoor.

That group is backed by a well funded/organized national campaign so...

dmchicago

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/mumbly_joe/status/1641448502302760964?s=20

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1641443244168060935?s=20

lousubcap

^^^^ That is bringing it right to 'em.  How sweet it is.

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1641919886313046016?s=20

dmchicago

Next they’ll lock up the folks who say mangrates are the sh!t. 

JohnInCarolina

To the surprise of absolutely nobody actually paying attention:

http://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1643258378636910594?s=20

JohnInCarolina