The impact of Silicon Valley Bank's failure in tech and finance

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Silicon Valley Bank was the bank for tech. Its collapse is everyone's problem.

Bloomberg previously reported that Blackstone and other private credit giants like Ares Management and Carlyle Group were involved in discussions with SVB over its loan book. As of Thursday, Blackstone was assessing what it may consider buying, though the process remained in its early stages, a person familiar with the matter said.

"We thought it was gonna be difficult to raise capital like a week ago," Stage's Morgan said,"well it just got worse and you just lost access to really high quality cheap debt."swirled for months behind the scenesVCs and founders were publically urging each other the next day to pull their money out of the bank on Twitter and Discord. By March 10, less than 48 hours after the initial panic, the bank was shut down by regulators.

"People like to say 'We have so many regulations in place after Dodd-Frank, and look a bank still failed' and that's not true," Kairong Xiao, a finance expert and professor at Columbia Business School, said."All of the remaining regulations are being gamed through the fine print as the public has lost interest since 2008,"

 

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“Some” tech.

Frankly speaking, I don't give a damn.

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