Lesson from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath explains
Live MintZerodha founder and investor Nithin Kamath said the lesson for the fallout of Silicon Valley Bank or the most recent collapse of a mid-sized Yes Bank in the Indian context is to have funds, especially working capital, distributed across a bunch of banks. Take a look at his tweet: The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank has rocked the markets, raising concerns that other banks could be facing similar problems. "The contagion risk remains for small banks with highly rate-sensitive clients but the US authorities now step in to avoid contagion," Swissquote Bank's senior analyst, Ipek Ozkardeskaya, said. Some 89 per cent of SVB's $175 billion in deposits were uninsured as of the end of 2022, according to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. All depositors, including those whose funds exceed the maximum government-insured level, will be made whole, as per a joint statement by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg on Sunday evening.