Silicon Valley Bank
Business

A finance expert on what happens next after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

- March 13, 2023 3 MIN READ

Silicon Valley Bank, which catered to the tech industry for three decades, collapsed on March 10, 2023, after the Santa Clara, California-based lender suffered from an old-fashioned bank run. State regulators seized the bank and made the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation its receiver. SVB, as it’s known, was the biggest U.S. lender to fail since… Read more »

Politics

Australia is going to introduce US-style insolvency laws for when small companies get into financial trouble

- September 24, 2020 2 MIN READ

The Morrison government will make sweeping changes to the insolvency system to improve the chances of saving small businesses hit by the pandemic. The reforms – which are described as the most significant for three decades – will cover three quarters of businesses currently subject to insolvency, almost all of which have less than 20… Read more »