Elizabeth Warren, AOC Ask SVB Depositors to Detail Ties to Bank
The Democrats demanded answers over SVB’s close relationships with its customers.
Signage outside Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergSenator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York sent letters Sunday to 14 of the largest depositors with Silicon Valley Bank that raised concerns over the failed bank’s relationship with some of the venture capitalists and tech founders who made up much of its customer base.
In letters reviewed by Bloomberg that were sent to companies including Circle Internet Financial, BILL Holdings Inc., BlockFi Inc. and Eiger BioPharmaceuticals Inc., Warren and Ocasio-Cortez asked questions about the nature of their connections with SVB. Those included the length of their relationship and the amount of money they had deposited with the bank, which collapsed in March after investors and depositors tried to pull out $42 billion in a single day.