Charles Schwab Corp. is well-known as the premier discount broker in the U.S., and some may not realize that it’s actually a savings and loan holding company.
Schwab’s SCHW main banking subsidiary is Charles Schwab Bank SSB, an insured depository institution based in Westlake, Texas. The bank had $349 billion in total assets as of Dec. 31, while Charles Schwab Corp. had $552 billion in total assets. An outflow of deposits drove the sale of securities that SVB Financial Group SIVB announced last week, before that company’s main subsidiary Silicon Valley Bank of Santa Clara, Calif., was closed by state regulators on Friday and handed over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. SVB’s problems sprang from its focus on clients in the venture capital industry and a balance sheet heavily concentrated in long-term bonds that had lost value as interest rates rose.
On the holding company level, Schwab’s net revenue for 2022 totaled $15.57 billion. Here’s how that was broken down:So the company’s banking business is critically important. Brokerage clients’ cash is kept in bank sweep accounts, and clients who use margin to invest pay fees and interest on borrowings.
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