India’s state minister for technology said on Sunday he will meet start-ups this week to asses the impact on them of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, as concerns rise about the fallout for the Indian start-up sector. California banking regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bankon Friday after the a run on the lender, which had $209 […]
Sillicon Valley Bank Failure
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday he was working with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey to “avoid or minimise damage” resulting from the chaos engulfing the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank. Friday’s dramatic failure of the U.S. bank SVB Financial Group, which focuses on tech startups, […]
Britain’s finance ministry and the Bank of England are working to minimize the disruption that could arise from a collapse of the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank, which has been seized by U.S. regulators, the ministry said on Saturday. Talks were scheduled for Saturday to discuss the issues faced by British tech companies affected […]
Over the past year, the U.S. Federal Reserve launched its most aggressive interest rate hiking cycle since the early 1980s and other central banks joined in, leaving global investors to face a gamut of consequences. They have seen the longest selloff in technology shares since the dotcom bubble at the turn of the millennium, a […]
SVB Financial Group Inc’s shutdown and takeover by banking regulators on Friday can be traced to the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates and souring the risk appetite of investors. Here is the sequence of events that led to Silicon Valley Bank’s failure: FEDERAL RESERVE RAISES RATES The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates […]