UpTickMeA$AP
2 years ago
$SIVBQ and $SBNY are very interesting. I don't see any real catalyst for $SIVBQ, to pop it huge again. $SBNY has a hidden Gem, I think on news, with make it rocket up. Both could still churn out huge gains though.
The hidden Gem for $SBNY is it's Blockchain platform, SIGNET. Nobody's really talking about it.
An executive at a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm, who agreed to speak under the condition of anonymity, said Signature’s crypto-related business, including its digital payments platform, Signet, is crucially important to the sector and will be “very valuable” to the right acquirer.
“I suspect that the crypto portion of the business will find a buyer,” they said. “We see this as a crucial test for the industry.”
https://blockworks.co/news/fdic-sells-signature-bank
It's a sleeping giant.
tw0122
2 years ago
100% failure absolutely ZERO buyers for SVB bank assets. Now, what has emerged in the last couple of weeks is that, contrary to what some have argued — which is that SVB should have been bailed out because it was some sort of a “good bank,” that it was investing in the “cutting edge” of American industry and investing in production — in reality what we’ve discovered is that SVB’s banks assets are of much more dubious value. That the federal agency charged with selling and dissolving it cannot find buyers, either for the whole of the bank, or banking assets.
The Financial Times in this story reports that the largest portion of the loan book of Silicon Valley Bank, [which] was $41.3 billion at the end of 2022, consists primarily of so-called “subscription lines” which SVB offered to private equity and venture capital funds.
Such loans are extended basically to tide over a fund between the time it buys a company, or makes an investment, and when the fund receives the money that has been promised — of which of course there are no guarantees.
So such loans are always very low-yielding; they are not even rated. And they are now considered too risky by financial institutions. That’s the bulk of [SVB’s loan book].
And then another part of SVB’s alleged investments amounted to speculation — what we may call “crony lending” — lending on a rolling basis to already rich people and their private funds to enrich them so that they can enrich themselves through dividends and management fees even when they are not making very much money.
And the repayment is postponed [until] the unlikely event that there is a successful IPO. These were the depositors that got bailed out.
So honestly the “all is well” message is definitely not very credible. In fact what we are seeing — and of course we’ve seen that [Jerome] Powell has repeated the message of Yellen — he said the banking system is sound and resilient and deposits are stable and he claimed the crisis has been stemmed by the decisive action of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury
You see that banks have been sliding over the past month and they remain quite low. They are not recovering. The investors are not assured. The public is not assured.
And in this context it’s also very interesting that the Stanford Business School is reporting that the US banking system’s market value of assets is two trillion dollars lower than suggested by their book value.
So this is — and this low level declined — they have dropped by ten percent in the last little while. So this is really quite a serious matter.
UpTickMeA$AP
2 years ago
That is false. It's more uneducated message board misinformation. It would be wise to research claims, before making them. Institutional investors without doubt play bankruptcies, which are always placed on the OTC, if they continue to trade.
Here is a paper I read when studying the
Behavior of institutional investors who play bankruptcies. It's written by
Elena Precourt and Henry Oppenheimer, and proves your claim incorrect without doubt.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44657336
Enjoy the read, if you care to educate yourself. I would suggest it.
hondaboost
2 years ago
It’s Not SEC rules, BUT, the rules of the funds and institutions themselves: they are not allowed to buy OTCBB and Pink sheets stocks, as most of these stocks are garbages and too risky.
The funds and institutions must liquidate a stock when it files bankruptcy, this is Why so huge dumping when the bankruptcy is announced.
“ During bankruptcies”, it’s secured and unsecured equity holders who participate the hearing, NOT institutions.
UpTickMeA$AP
2 years ago
They don't have them listed as a " previous holding" from the December update,. Institutions get caught holding shares in bankruptcies, this isn't secret. There is no SEC rule that states they can't hold bankruptcy, or Penny stocks.
Why would a fund "speculate" on what they can't hold? That doesn't even make sense..
During bankruptcies, if you follow them, many times institutions will send representation during proceedings. This is because they hold equity, or other investments.
If you can use links as I have done in previous posts, to show validity. Nothing you state I see as true.