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6 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

Medallion is not just notary on steroids, it means the owner of the stamp (i.e. first republic) is guaranteeing that the transaction is legit and authorized and the counterparty can seek damages against them if it's not.  So if first republic was using that for you in minutes without a little background check, then their risk controls are a little lax.  

They did a background check and they had a multi-year relationship with us already.  What they did differently than Wells Fargo is they did it quickly and efficiently.  When I said in minutes I did not mean 5-10.  It was thorough.  But they did not spend half a day on the phone with some national call center trying to explain things.  They knew what they were doing and what was required.

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3 hours ago, Mullet Free said:

Hi, we’re the Fed. We’re here to eat your billions of losses for you if you’re interested. 
 

No thank you kind Sirs. Think of the stigma!

 

Of course the banks took advantage of it. Massive bailout. GGWP. 

I was told the Fed doesn't do bailouts.

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Accessing the discount window isn't a bailout. It's a short term collateralized loan used whenever there's a liquidity issue and suitable credit isn't found. The loans are always backed up by assets and the terms are renewed every day. There's a stigma to using it because people wonder why they can't find a suitable interbank loan- is it because no one wants to lend to you or is it because no one else has the capacity?

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Data published by the Fed showed $152.85 billion in borrowing from the discount window — the traditional liquidity backstop for banks — in the week ended March 15, a record high, up from $4.58 billion the previous week. The prior all-time high was $111 billion reached during the 2008 financial crisis.

Everything is fine.

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What a week. Reminded me of 3/20 when the world was ending.

I tried to skim the thread a little but gave up after the 20-30th definition of a 'bailout' was thrown out there.

Just digesting overall where we are at, I have to chuckle at the irony of smaller depositors all around getting skittish at "risky" banks and pulling their money out and placing at the safe GSIBs. GSIBs, having absolutely no need or use for the deposit growth, are in turn banding together in an amazing show of unity by making a $30B uninsured deposit of said inflow at... a "risky" bank. Circle of life stuff...

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18 minutes ago, Jackson P. Neighbors said:

What a week. Reminded me of 3/20 when the world was ending.

I tried to skim the thread a little but gave up after the 20-30th definition of a 'bailout' was thrown out there.

Just digesting overall where we are at, I have to chuckle at the irony of smaller depositors all around getting skittish at "risky" banks and pulling their money out and placing at the safe GSIBs. GSIBs, having absolutely no need or use for the deposit growth, are in turn banding together in an amazing show of unity by making a $30B uninsured deposit of said inflow at... a "risky" bank. Circle of life stuff...

that risky bank just announced they're raising more cash via an issuance of new equity in a private sale. 

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8 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

that risky bank just announced they're raising more cash via an issuance of new equity in a private sale. 

And the race is on. Is Goldman handling the capital raise? Worked out well last time.

Seems like those deposits are going to get insured one way or another. Community bank to GSIB to Regional bank to FDIC bridge bank isn't the most efficient method, but whatever works.

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6 minutes ago, Jackson P. Neighbors said:

And the race is on. Is Goldman handling the capital raise? Worked out well last time.

Seems like those deposits are going to get insured one way or another. Community bank to GSIB to Regional bank to FDIC bridge bank isn't the most efficient method, but whatever works.

didn't say who but i'll be surprised if it's solely GS. i'm expecting wording along the lines of "a consortium lead by GS" or something similar.  existing relationships still count for something.  

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21 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

didn't say who but i'll be surprised if it's solely GS. i'm expecting wording along the lines of "a consortium lead by GS" or something similar.  existing relationships still count for something.  

Biding a little time before a sale is announced?

FRB has a very different business model than SB and SVB so its just ugly all around.

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16 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

and now USB looks to be straight up buying credit suisse.

I think the Swiss regulators are twisting their arm to do it.  The fallout from SVB is going to reverberate for a while but CS looks like a different matter.  It was a little funny that Saudi caused this issue by refusing to give them any more money.

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19 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

... They took that free money and handed it to banks. ...

Not all the banks.

Feds: Do you support crypto markets?

Signature Bank: Yes

Feds: Furtive Movements! Stop Resisting!

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Feds: Do you support crypto markets?

First Republic: No

Feds: Allow us to give you a ride home.  Would you like some cold cuts with Grey Poupon?

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On 3/16/2023 at 11:21 PM, gsoda3 said:

Accessing the discount window isn't a bailout. It's a short term collateralized loan used whenever there's a liquidity issue and suitable credit isn't found. The loans are always backed up by assets and the terms are renewed every day. There's a stigma to using it because people wonder why they can't find a suitable interbank loan- is it because no one wants to lend to you or is it because no one else has the capacity?

Got it. Misread that. I did see it essentially matched in 2023 dollars the usage at peak in 2008. 
 

FWIW $12B of that usage was the emergency loan program they just set up. 

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On 3/15/2023 at 1:23 PM, Beau Vine said:

It's like a lawyer getting a case thrown out for misnumbering exhibits.

Actually, it's kinda not.  There's no class on numbering exhibits in law school.  Hell, for the most part there's no talk of the actual handling of exhibits at all.  In most firms, that's not even handled by lawyers, rather paralegals.

When you get into the practice of law, though, sometimes you encounter people that may be great or good at some of the lawyering stuff, like arguing or writing, but are so practically bereft as to not have the foggiest notion how to attach exhibits or even support their admissibility.

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This crossed my google feed.  Some turd burglar from IBD tries to blame the gay, female "woke" president of the SF Fed for not adequately supervising SVB.  Ignoring the repeal of Dodd-Frank's mandate of supervision of SVB and similar-sized banks from such supervision.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/why-woke-frisco-fed-chief-missed-silicon-valley-banks-warning-signs/

The comments are frightening.  I know it's Fox News II Electric Boogaloo, but Christ.

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

This crossed my google feed.  Some turd burglar from IBD tries to blame the gay, female "woke" president of the SF Fed for not adequately supervising SVB.  Ignoring the repeal of Dodd-Frank's mandate of supervision of SVB and similar-sized banks from such supervision.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/16/microsoft-to-improve-office-365-with-chatgpt-like-generative-ai-tech-.html

The comments are frightening.  I know it's Fox News II Electric Boogaloo, but Christ.

Wrong link but at least it's not about getting pegged.

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18 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

Wrong link but at least it's not about getting pegged.

Ummm...you didn't read the story and see the upcoming changes for ChatGPT-5 did you?

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  • Pegging videos using characters generated from the comments and photos of your family from their social media accounts.
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Asset/Liability maturity matching is Banking 101.  I'm not sure exactly what happened here, but it is a major (and very predictable) fuck up in the current interest rate environment.  The over classification of so much of their assets as HTM hid their huge embedded losses.  I don't think that it would have taken the "stress test" to identify this risk.

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Actually, it's kinda not.  There's no class on numbering exhibits in law school.  Hell, for the most part there's no talk of the actual handling of exhibits at all.  In most firms, that's not even handled by lawyers, rather paralegals.
When you get into the practice of law, though, sometimes you encounter people that may be great or good at some of the lawyering stuff, like arguing or writing, but are so practically bereft as to not have the foggiest notion how to attach exhibits or even support their admissibility.

How about Aggy law school?
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9 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Asset/Liability maturity matching is Banking 101.  I'm not sure exactly what happened here, but it is a major (and very predictable) fuck up in the current interest rate environment.  The over classification of so much of their assets as HTM hid their huge embedded losses.  I don't think that it would have taken the "stress test" to identify this risk.

It’s been reported that SVB would have passed a stress test.  

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23 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

What Dodd frank regulations were rolled back and how would they have helped stop the collapse of svb?

it changed the threshold from $50b in assets to $250b

12 hours ago, Mullet Free said:

 

 

this was predictable and comical how the regulators have backed themselves into this corner.

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13 hours ago, Mullet Free said:

They are, they’re just a prolific account that shares a lot of news so they’re easY to link. 
 

Better?
 

 

 

 

Yes, Bloomberg is a much better source than Zero Hedge.

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30 minutes ago, wackawacka said:

it changed the threshold from $50b in assets to $250b

this was predictable and comical how the regulators have backed themselves into this corner.

Oh, the regulators did this?  mount up.

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On 3/18/2023 at 8:51 AM, bernorange said:

Not all the banks.

Feds: Do you support crypto markets?

Signature Bank: Yes

Feds: Furtive Movements! Stop Resisting!

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Feds: Do you support crypto markets?

First Republic: No

Feds: Allow us to give you a ride home.  Would you like some cold cuts with Grey Poupon?

This is the way.

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13 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

This crossed my google feed.  Some turd burglar from IBD tries to blame the gay, female "woke" president of the SF Fed for not adequately supervising SVB.  Ignoring the repeal of Dodd-Frank's mandate of supervision of SVB and similar-sized banks from such supervision.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/why-woke-frisco-fed-chief-missed-silicon-valley-banks-warning-signs/

The comments are frightening.  I know it's Fox News II Electric Boogaloo, but Christ.

Turns out he's wrong.  (Stunned, I know.)  They were under supervision for over a year.  I'm sure he'll post a retraction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/business/economy/fed-silicon-valley-bank.html

WASHINGTON — Silicon Valley Bank’s risky practices were on the Federal Reserve’s radar for more than a year — an awareness that proved insufficient to stop the bank’s demise.

The Fed repeatedly warned the bank that it had problems, according to a person familiar with the matter.

In 2021, a Fed review of the growing bank found serious weaknesses in how it was handling key risks. Supervisors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which oversaw Silicon Valley Bank, issued six citations. Those warnings, known as “matters requiring attention” and “matters requiring immediate attention,” flagged that the firm was doing a bad job of ensuring that it would have enough easy-to-tap cash on hand in the event of trouble.

But the bank did not fix its vulnerabilities. By July 2022, Silicon Valley Bank was in a full supervisory review — getting a more careful look — and was ultimately rated deficient for governance and controls. It was placed under a set of restrictions that prevented it from growing through acquisitions. Last autumn, staff members from the San Francisco Fed met with senior leaders at the firm to talk about their ability to gain access to enough cash in a crisis and possible exposure to losses as interest rates rose.

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3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Turns out he's wrong.  (Stunned, I know.)  They were under supervision for over a year.  I'm sure he'll post a retraction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/business/economy/fed-silicon-valley-bank.html

WASHINGTON — Silicon Valley Bank’s risky practices were on the Federal Reserve’s radar for more than a year — an awareness that proved insufficient to stop the bank’s demise.

The Fed repeatedly warned the bank that it had problems, according to a person familiar with the matter.

In 2021, a Fed review of the growing bank found serious weaknesses in how it was handling key risks. Supervisors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which oversaw Silicon Valley Bank, issued six citations. Those warnings, known as “matters requiring attention” and “matters requiring immediate attention,” flagged that the firm was doing a bad job of ensuring that it would have enough easy-to-tap cash on hand in the event of trouble.

But the bank did not fix its vulnerabilities. By July 2022, Silicon Valley Bank was in a full supervisory review — getting a more careful look — and was ultimately rated deficient for governance and controls. It was placed under a set of restrictions that prevented it from growing through acquisitions. Last autumn, staff members from the San Francisco Fed met with senior leaders at the firm to talk about their ability to gain access to enough cash in a crisis and possible exposure to losses as interest rates rose.

I think we all know why nothing was done despite adequate warning signs. The executives and large account holders at SVB ran in the right social circles and possibly/probably donated to the right politicians. Regulators never fuck with “their people”. It’s pretty reliable that the only ones who are consistently under scrutiny are the poors.

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UBS has agreed to buy Credit Suisse after increasing its offer to more than $2bn, with Swiss authorities poised to change the country’s laws to bypass a shareholder vote on the transaction as they rush to finalise a deal before Monday.

The all-share deal between Switzerland’s two biggest banks is set to be signed as soon as Sunday evening and will be priced at a fraction of Credit Suisse’s closing price on Friday, all but wiping out the target’s shareholders

 

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On 3/15/2023 at 11:43 AM, crash_davis said:

Last night Frontline on PBS had a great documentary on how free money for the last 2 decades got us here. Must watch. Spoiler alert. This is just the start of a long overdue bill. Whoda thunk decades of free money and everyone and everything leveraged to the max would be a good thing?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/age-of-easy-money/


definitely worth watching, thanks for the link

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5 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

So everything is fine right guys?

The atm at Walgreens was out of order today, so I assume the great bank failures have started since FDIC hasn’t insured 100% of deposits yet.  Time to stock up on canned beans, sardines and milk duds, the revolution is at hand.  

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