, closed down with some $209 billion in assets and about $175 billion in deposits as of the end of last year, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency which helps protect many customers' bank deposits.
SVB's collapse is a bigger shock than Washington Mutual's demise, which came after months of rising concern over the Seattle-based bank's risky home loans. This time, SVB went from a seemingly stable financial institution to collapse in a matter of days. Silicon Valley Bank was shut down on Friday by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, after theA representative for Silicon Valley Bank did not immediately respond to Insider's emailed request for comment on Friday.
You mean 'looting'
I thought they said it was the second biggest bank failure in history (not surprising, with inflation).