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by LapsangGuzzler 1180 days ago
> Nor have I seen much evidence that most other banks have significantly less liquidity risk than SVB did.

In traditional banking, rising interest rates are a good thing because it means that banks in turn get to underwrite loans at higher interest rates, which positively affects their bottom line. SVB's problems were twofold: A) they had a one-dimensional investment strategy that was adversely affected by rising rates, and B) outstanding loans made up a very small portion of their business relative to their size, which made it so that they weren't able to capture meaningful value from rising interest rates. The latter is actually pretty rare for a bank, which shows how uninterested they were in actually functioning like one.