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Concentrated Company Stock in Your ESOP? Waiting to Diversify Could Tank Your Retirement

Holding too much company stock can be disastrous — as Silicon Valley Bank and Kodak employees learned the hard way. The key is to diversify as soon as you can.

Shifting tastes, shrinking sales: Napa Valley’s wineries adapt amid ‘shocking’ downturn

Shifting tastes, shrinking sales: Napa Valley’s wineries adapt amid ‘shocking’ downturn

From layoffs to shifting tastes, California’s wine industry is in flux – but small producers are innovating to survive

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As Wall Street banks crush records, America’s regional banks spook investors—but there’s a key difference from when SVB went bust

As Wall Street banks crush records, America’s regional banks spook investors—but there’s a key difference from when SVB went bust

Raymond James said it views Zions’ disclosure as a “one-off credit hiccup” and not a systemic credit issue.

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Jerome Powell should resign, top economist Mohamed El-Erian says, citing a scandal Trump hasn't even mentioned

Remember the insider trading scandal at the Fed? El-Erian does, along with what he considers a series of missteps on inflation.

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leads group of tech billionaires launching new crypto-bank — aims to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 collapse

It's looking to fortify its coffers with stablecoins.

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Redemption Bank becomes the first Black-owned bank in the Rockies

Redemption Holding Company has just acquired the Utah-based Holladay Bank & Trust, becoming the first bank to be owned by a Black-led investment group in the Western U.S. This comes two years after their initial announcement, in which the purchase was delayed due to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

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Banks are sitting on $500 billion in unrealized losses, and stagflation could cause another Silicon Valley Bank-like crisis

As long as interest rates remain elevated, lenders could be at risk if depositors get spooked.

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Why weakening U.S. bank regulators could repeat the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis

Why weakening U.S. bank regulators could repeat the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis

As United States President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements wreak havoc on stock markets, concerns are mounting over the possibility of a global financial crisis.

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Wine prices are set to spike considerably, regardless of whether Trump follows through with threats of 200% tariffs on EU booze.

Wine prices are set to spike considerably, regardless of whether Trump follows through with threats of 200% tariffs on EU booze.

California's wine supply is the lowest in 30 years.

Financial Stocks Should Pay Off in 2025

Financial Stocks Should Pay Off in 2025

Looking to buy financial stocks? Businesses that provide financial products and services are buoyant, but you should be choosy about where to put your money.

BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street own huge amounts of bank shares—but only one agrees with FDIC policy on undue influence

BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street own huge amounts of bank shares—but only one agrees with FDIC policy on undue influence

Vanguard has already signed an agreement with the FDIC while BlackRock is reportedly pushing to delay until the Trump administration takes over later this month.

The Best Bank ETFs to Buy

The Best Bank ETFs to Buy

The best bank ETFs can offer above-average yields and reduce the complexities of investing in financial stocks.

Wine industry grapples with being something only boomers like as younger consumers have 'mindshare of wine half that of their elders'

Wine industry grapples with being something only boomers like as younger consumers have 'mindshare of wine half that of their elders'

"Time is not on our side," reads Silicon Valley Bank’s 2024 State of the US Wine Industry. Only premium wines are selling, and only to boomers with money.

Exclusive: In 2024, CVCs participated in 28% of overall venture deals, new report shows

Exclusive: In 2024, CVCs participated in 28% of overall venture deals, new report shows

Counterpart Ventures has just released its annual report in collaboration with Silicon Valley Bank, taking the temperature of the CVC landscape.

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Could Silicon Valley Bank happen again? ‘The short answer is, yes,’ says professor who sees $2 trillion of losses on the books

Columbia’s Tomasz Piskorski sees a lot of banks in trouble—but also banks becoming less and less important over time.

‘Banks continue to become increasingly less relevant’: the professor who sees a $2 trillion hole in the economy predicts a thinning of the herd

Small-to-mid-size banks will be the first forced out of business, he says. “There are quite a few banks in the United States right now that have very similar risk characteristics [to Silicon Valley Bank]."

The Great Financial Crisis kick started the private credit boom, but SVB was its true 'watershed' moment, Sixth Street co-president says

Joshua Easterly, co-CIO and co-president of Sixth Street, said he realized after the GFC in 2009 that private credit was the next big thing.

Evening Standard

HSBC Innovation Banking chair departs in latest boardroom reshuffle

The chair of HSBC Innovation Banking has stepped down in the latest sign of a boardroom reshuffle at the firm formerly known as Silicon Valley Bank UK.

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Board exit at HSBC Innovation Banking

When HSBC acquired the UK arm of the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank last year, boss Noel Quinn talked up the importance of preserving its operational independence. The firm would keep its own separate office across town and staff would not be ferried into Canary Wharf. “It’s a unit we purchased and we want…

Tether CEO defies his critics—and he has a point

Paolo Ardoino points out his firm has remained steady even as once respectable banks and crypto rivals have collapsed.

Bouncing back: Silicon Valley bets on AI to regain past glory

Thousands of Silicon Valley employees have been laid off over the past year, often finding out the bad news by email. Hit hard by rampant inflation and over-hiring during the Covid pandemic, the US tech giants of the San Francisco Bay Area have faced one of the worst crises in…

Inside a bankruptcy committee’s ongoing investigation into the failure of Silicon Valley Bank

Since June, the Committee has subpoenaed documents from McKinsey, Curinos, BlackRock, Ernest & Young, and Goldman Sachs to unearth all available information.

'This is all bad news': 'Shark Tank' mogul Kevin O'Leary looks at the commercial real estate landscape and despairs, warning of 'chaos' to come

Not only does O'Leary see a "correction" coming for the office sector, but in New York it may be better "to actually tear these buildings down and rebuild.”

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Bank CEOs set the tone from the top when it comes to risky behaviour — new research

Metro Bank positioned itself as “a fresh start to banking” when it launched in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. It was set up in 2010 as a challenger to the “big five” banks dominating the UK market post-crisis: HSBC, NatWest, Lloyds, Barclays and Santander.

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Yes, bankruptcies are on the rise in the US – but there’s no need to panic

It should come as no surprise that commercial bankruptcy filings are up but the bigger picture tells a different story

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