MarketWatch First Take: Silicon Valley bites the hand that feeds it in SVB bank run

MarketWatch First Take: Silicon Valley bites the hand that feeds it in SVB bank run

MarketWatch First Take

Silicon Valley Bank was shut down on Friday morning by California regulators and was put in control of the FDIC.

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Silicon Valley Bank SIVB, a 40-year-old bank at the heart of the valley’s ecosystem, was forced to shutter Friday after its core depositors — many of them startup companies — took out $42 billion out in a shocking bank run that started Thursday, leaving many unanswered questions in the tech world.

As the Federal Depository Insurance Corp. put the bank into receivership and created a new bank, Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara, to pay its insured deposits starting Monday, small companies who have relied on the…

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