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by lapcat 1186 days ago
SVB had a ridiculously high uninsured deposits % of total liabilities, way above all of its peers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241691
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> SVB had a ridiculously high uninsured deposits % of total liabilities

They focused on businesses and HNW individuals and used exclusive banking agreements as preconditions for some deals, so, this is not surprising; had it been engineered to maximize uninsured deposits, it would have been hard to do better.