Say you are a Small Company with $5mm in a recent fund raise that you have at SVB. You use that $5mm to make payroll, pay amazon, your office, AT&T for your fiber, buy macbook airs for your employees, etc...
Now - you are listening to the recent news, and it looks like SVB is going to be taken over by the FDIC. If that happens, you will be insured up to $250K, but the rest of your $5mm, all $4.75mm is now frozen. You will be given a certificate for the uninsured funds, and you will be in line to be paid back, but (A) Not immediately, and (B) you may lose part of your funds.
You, as a rational CEO, would probably want to put your money in, say, Wells Fargo, where it wouldn't be frozen, and you wouldn't lose any of it.
That was the basis of the liquidity event that just happened.
Say you are a Small Company with $5mm in a recent fund raise that you have at SVB. You use that $5mm to make payroll, pay amazon, your office, AT&T for your fiber, buy macbook airs for your employees, etc...
Now - you are listening to the recent news, and it looks like SVB is going to be taken over by the FDIC. If that happens, you will be insured up to $250K, but the rest of your $5mm, all $4.75mm is now frozen. You will be given a certificate for the uninsured funds, and you will be in line to be paid back, but (A) Not immediately, and (B) you may lose part of your funds.
You, as a rational CEO, would probably want to put your money in, say, Wells Fargo, where it wouldn't be frozen, and you wouldn't lose any of it.
That was the basis of the liquidity event that just happened.