What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system?

Two wayssvbsvb. Gradually, then suddenly. That is how Silicon Valley Bank (), the 16th-largest lender in America, with about $200bn in assets, went bust. Its financial position over several years. But just two days elapsed between the San Francisco-based bank’s announcement on March 8th that it was seeking to raise $2.5bn to plug a hole in its balance-sheet, and the declaration by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which regulates American bank deposits, that had failed.