SEC and DOJ start investigations against Silicon Valley Bank: Report

SEC and DOJ start investigations against Silicon Valley Bank: Report
Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Ministry of Justice (DOJ) are reported to examine the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which has now collapsed, after the supervisory authorities saved on Sunday.
The separate examinations will both examine the share sales of the SVB executives shortly before the bank's collapse.
- The investigations by the authorities are still in the early stages and will not necessarily lead to allegations or charges, according to the Wallstreet journal .
- Similar studies are equally common after the failure of financial institutions and crypto-native companies. The SEC and the CFTC reacted quickly Investigations in FTX, shortly after the company had frozen withdrawal in November before raising an indictment against the company in December.
- SVB Managing Director Greg Becker Sells Shares Value on Friday and collapsed on Friday Options worth $ 1.3 million acquired, as can be seen from an official application.
- Becker had already arranged the sale on January 26 in accordance with the SEC rules against insider trade.
- The same manager asked the bank's inserts on Thursday after a Wednesday "to stay calm". Announcement of the company announced that it had realized a loss of $ 1.8 billion after it had sold its bond portfolio of $ 21 billion to restructure its balance sheet.
- The inserters still flew to the outputs and tried withdraw Dollar from the company at the late Thursday. The founding fund of PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel even Investors to do.
- The shareholders of the company were not included in his rescue operation, and his management became complete discontinued.
- The SEC examined a series of crypto companies, including Krake and Binance On consideration that such exchanges have not issued or sold registered securities
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