Signature Bank closed and ‘Bundesbank convenes crisis team to assess SVB fallout’
Signature Bank was closed by New York state financial regulators on Sunday https://t.co/EJFiXXRurY
— Bloomberg (@business) March 12, 2023
The Associated Press reported the following:
From Wine Country to London, Bank’s Failure Shakes Worldwide
March 13, 2023
U.S. regulators closed the Silicon Valley Bank on Friday after it experienced a traditional bank run, where depositors rushed to withdraw their funds all at once. It is the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual.
In a sign of how fast the financial bleeding was occurring, regulators announced that New York-based Signature Bank had also failed.
The president, speaking from the Roosevelt Room shortly before U.S. markets opened, said he’d seek to hold those responsible and pressed for better oversight and regulation of larger banks. And he promised no losses would be borne by taxpayers.
Governments in the U.S. and Britain were both taking extraordinary steps to prevent a potential banking crisis.
The Bank of England and U.K. Treasury said early Monday that they had facilitated the sale of the Silicon Valley bank’s London-based subsidiary to HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, ensuring the security of 6.7 billion pounds ($8.1 billion) of deposits. https://apnews.com/article/silicon-valley-bank-uk-bailout-hsbc-sale-4d2da0e9c6f39c0fd8faf321a2b295cf?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01
Notice also:
Signature Bank, which had offices in Beverly Hills, El Segundo, Newport Beach and Ontario, was closed Sunday by the New York Department of Financial Services to protect depositors.
The department has appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to run the day-to-day operations of the bank. All depositors will be made whole, according to the department.
In a joint statement issued Sunday by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell and FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg, announcing Yellen’s approval of actions enabling the FDIC to complete its resolution of Santa Clara-based Silicon Valley Bank, also announced “a similar systemic risk exception for Signature Bank,” 03/12/23 https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/signature-bank-closes-offices-in-socal/3112797/
The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is beginning to spread around the world.
Startup founders in California’s Bay Area are panickingabout access to money and paying employees. Fears of contagion have reached Canada, India and China. In the UK, SVB’s unit is set to be declared insolvent, has already ceased trading and is no longer taking new customers. 03/11/23 https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/svb-fallout-spreads-around-the-world-as-uk-firms-plea-for-help
Reuters reported:
Bundesbank convenes crisis team to assess SVB fallout
March 13, 2023
FRANKFURT, March 13 (Reuters) – The Bundesbank convened its crisis team on Monday to assess the possible fallout of the collapse of U.S. lender Silicon Valley Bank on the local market, even as no emergency action was foreseen in Europe.
U.S. authorities launched emergency measures on Sunday to shore up confidence in the banking system after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB.O) threatened to trigger a broader financial crisis.
With euro zone banking shares falling sharply early on Monday — Commerzbank (CBKG.DE) fell as much as 11% while Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) was down 6.5% — the German central bank called a meeting of its Financial Crisis Team to assess the ramifications for local lenders and financial markets, a spokesman told Reuters. …
In the euro zone decisions are made by national supervisors for smaller banks and by the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Board for large ones. …
Germany’s financial regulator BaFin, which supervises German banks in cooperation with the Bundesbank, said it was imposing a moratorium on the German branch of SVB in the wake of its demise. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bundesbank-convenes-crisis-team-assess-svb-fallout-2023-03-13/
Europe’s banks sucked into global rout as high rates reality hits home
European bank shares tumbled on Friday in the wake of a dramatic sell-off in U.S. lenders as concern spread that the sector will be vulnerable to the rising cost of money. …
The global rout in bank stocks was prompted by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a major banking partner for the U.S. tech sector …
“The market is treating this as a potential contagion risk,” said Antoine Bouvet, senior rates strategist at ING in London.
“It makes sense to me that a remote probability of a U.S. banking system-wide crisis should also come with a small probability of contagion to Europe,” he said. …
Global borrowing costs have risen at the fastest pace in decades over the last year as the Federal Reserve lifted U.S. rates by 450 basis points from near zero, while the European Central Bank hiked the euro zone’s by 300 bps. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us-bank-sell-off-sends-ripples-through-europes-lenders-2023-03-10/
While the US banking system is not yet in full collapse mode and the Europeans feel that they will be okay after the closure of Silicon Valley Bank, there still is the bigger issue of raised interest rates.
It is the raising of interest rates that reportedly led to the demise of Silicon Valley Bank.
The US Federal Reserve is looking to raise rates further:
March 7, 2023
Inflation and what the Fed is doing about it have been at the center of Wall Street’s sharp swings this year. After seeming to be on a steady decline since last summer, reports on inflation last month came in surprisingly hot. So did a suite of other data on the economy.
That raised fears that inflation is staying stickier than feared and that the Fed will have to raise rates higher than earlier thought. Higher rates can drag down inflation because they slow the economy, but they hurt prices for stocks and other investments. They also raise the risk of a recession later on.
Its chair, Jerome Powell, on Tuesday confirmed some of those fears and said the recent data mean “the ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously anticipated.” He also said in his testimony to a Senate committee that the Fed is ready to increase the pace of its hikes again if needed. https://fortune.com/2023/03/07/wall-street-stocks-fall-jerome-powell-interest-rate-hikes-fed/
Last Tuesday, the likelihood of additional interest rate hikes was announced, and on Friday, Silicon Valley Bank was gone.
The fact that higher interest rates are to blame is interesting for at least two reasons. The first is that the US Federal Reserve had them artificially low for years–there is a cost for that. The second is that last Fall, Europe began to blame the USA for causing it economic problems bu raising interest rates. Notice something from last Fall showing that the In Europeans are concerned that the US interest rate policies are messing up its finances:
Here Comes The Open Revolt: A Reeling Europe Lashes Out At The Fed For “Bringing Us To A World Recession”
October 11, 2022
As a result of the Fed’s relentless tightening blitz, which on November 2 will have hiked rates by 75bps on four occasions in just 96 trading days, the fastest tightening campaign since Volcker, both US capital markets (the S&P 500 is down -24%, for the 4th worst year on record, only 1931, 1974, and 2002 were worse; and 10Y TSYs are down -17% for the worst year on record… 1987 second worse, and bonds were down -10%) and the US economy have been left reeling.
However, the damage in the US – whose economy is relatively isolated from the knock-on (or is that out) effects of the soaring global reserve currency – are nothing compared to the devastation unleashed by the Fed in the form of the soaring dollar and exploding interest rates. …
Josep Borrell, the high representative of the 27-member EU bloc, lashed out all too publicly at the Fed when he said that central banks (across Europe where the recession will be far, far worse than in the US) are being forced to follow the Fed’s multiple rate rises to prevent their currencies from slumping against the dollar, and compared the US central bank’s influence to Germany’s dominance of European monetary policy before the creation of the euro. …
“Everybody has to follow, because otherwise their currency will be [devalued],” Borrell said to an audience of EU ambassadors, the FT reported. “Everybody is running to increase interest rates, this will bring us to a world recession.” https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/here-comes-open-revolt-reeling-europe-lashes-out-fed-bringing-us-world-recession
Yes, Europe will blame the USA, and not just Russia, for economic crises.
As posted here numeorus times, the late Pastor General of the old Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong, had a view about banking matters and European unity. Here is something he said in a sermon on July 7, 1984:
And I can see now, the event that is going to trigger the formation of the reunification in Europe; the resurrection of the medieval Holy Roman Empire that we’ve been looking forward to that is prophesied to come…
But I believe that some event is going to happen suddenly just like out a blue sky that is going to shock the whole world and is going to cause the nations in Europe to realize they must unite! … Well now I think I can see what may be the very event that is going to trigger…that is the economic situation in the world…
The whole banking structure in the United States is a network all jointed together. But not only that, one nation has to deal with other nations and imports and exports. And so they have to have a means of transforming money from one nation to another. And so the banking structure is international and interwoven…
Now when the financial structure breaks down, all civilization is going to break down…
So, an economic or banking crisis is what Herbert W. Armstrong concluded would drive Europe to unite.
And yes, Europe will unite against the USA as well as its British-descended allies.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are not good for the USA.
Europe will one day turn against the USA and economic factors will be a major trigger.
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