By Kuldip K. Ambastha
During the past trading week, the stock of Silvergate Capital Corporation (SI), a banking platform focused on the cryptocurrency industry, saw five straight days of negative returns – the largest of which was a sharp -42.2% decline on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Since 2022, Silvergate has been faced with clients withdrawing money to weather the storms seen in the cryptocurrency segment. Eventually, the withdrawals led to losses taken from a rapid fire-sale of securities administered to meet client withdrawal needs. Silvergate had tried to avoid a shutdown, but in the end had to stop its banking activities and liquidate its lending arm. Silvergate was once hailed as an innovative bank, but now is yet another failed institution brought down by a run on the bank by its clients.
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