They deposited 3B with this bank for the specific purpose of it being a safe place.
Their 10B in cash was spread over 6 banks to diversify the bank risk.
They have plenty of higher risk investments in their treasury, but these ones were the safe ones intentionally put into banks with insurance. If the government protection wasn't there the investment would’t have been there in the first place
> 10B in cash was spread over 6 banks to diversify the bank risk
This is nonsense Treasury management. Fidelity spreads checking account deposits across twenty-six banks to reach $3mm FDIC coverage [1]. Beyond sweep, Circle’s assets should be in short-term, on-the-run Treasuries, repos and commercial paper.
These funds appear to be specifically for short term redemptions, if they turn over 3B in redemption's every 7 days then how are they meant to keep less then that in the banks
Hence the government protection should be partial. Mostly just making sure SVB's assets are used to lessen the impact of the closure. If that results in Circle getting pennies on the dollar then so be it.
> Mostly just making sure SVB's assets are used to lessen the impact of the closure
That's standard practice.
Money from liquidation goes first to insured deposits, then what remains goes to uninsured deposits, then to pay other debts, and finally if anything is left, to shareholders.
Looks like here it will only cover insured deposits and substantial fraction of uninsured deposits.
Yeah, some think that substantial fraction will be 100%. We'll see!
I don't want to give Circle one cent of bailout money, though. And their post is saying that they are owed a full bailout because they participated in the bank run on the day of the bank run, and also begging for a full bailout. Pretty pathetic.
>And their post is saying that they are owed a full bailout because they participated in the bank run on the day of the bank run, and also begging for a full bailout.
> $3.3bn of USDC’s cash reserves remain with SVB. As of Thursday, we had initiated transfers of these funds to other banking partners. Though these transfers had not yet been settled as of close of business Friday, we remain confident in the FDIC’s management of the SVB situation and stand ready to receive these funds.
The part where they said that because they participated in the bank run that they should keep it all, presumably even if others who didn't participate in the bank run lose some of theirs:
> We have reason to believe that under applicable FDIC policy, transfers initiated prior to a bank entering receivership would have otherwise been processed normally. In other words, the FDIC should allow transactions to settle in the ordinary course through the end of a bank’s standard daily processing cycle until the FDIC takes control of the failed institution.
"transfers initiated prior to a bank entering receivership" is doing a lot of work here.
Tl:Dr: Save us, Big Government.