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USDC will remain redeemable 1 for 1 with U.S. dollar, Circle says
USDC issuer Circle said it will resume normal operations Monday and that USDC will remain redeemable one-for-one with the U.S. dollar after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. Circle said that in th...
SVB implosion ‘a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake’ unless government intervenes
The consequences could be “vast and profound” if Silicon Valley Bank is not bailed out, according to billionaire investor Bill Ackman. Ackman warned of an “irreversible mistake” if a...
USDC and DAI remain at about $0.90 following Circle’s disclosure of funds at SVB
The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank spread overnight to the USDC stablecoin, which lost its peg to the U.S. dollar and dropped as low as $0.88. Following Circle’s disclosu...
American Express and 4 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends
American Express Oracle and Johnson Controls were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. It was a fairly light week for such announcements, with earnings season hav...
Coinbase halts conversion feature between U.S. dollars and USDC
Coinbase said Friday evening that it halted support for conversions between U.S. dollars and stablecoin USDC. “We are temporarily pausing USDC:USD conversions over the weekend while banks ...
Circle says $3.3 billion of USDC reserves are with Silicon Valley Bank
Circle, the crypto payments firm behind stablecoin USDC, confirmed late Friday evening that $3.3 billion of the cash backing its coin remain with Silicon Valley Bank. Circle, which had early tw...
BlockFi has $227 million in uninsured funds in Silicon Valley Bank
Crypto lender BlockFi has $227 million in “unprotected” funds in Silicon Valley Bank, according to a bankruptcy document, and may be in violation of U.S. bankruptcy law. The bank was shut down b...
Stablecoin issuers seek to diversify banking partners in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s meltdown
The failure of California-based Silicon Valley Bank today leaves the crypto market with one fewer lending partner, adding further pressure on stablecoin issuer Circle to beef up its portfolio of bank ...
Multiple Portfolio Companies Withdraw Funds from Silicon Valley Bank
Crypto venture capital firms advised their portfolio companies to pull their investments from American commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Specifically, five crypto-focused venture capital inve...
Silicon Valley Bank closed by California regulator
Markets • March 10, 2023, 11:56AM EST Silicon Valley Bank was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was appointed as the...
Silicon Valley Bank plunges 60% before halt, Signature trading stopped shortly after open
Markets • March 10, 2023, 9:56AM EST Trading in Silicon Valley Bank is halted for pending news, but not before after shares plunged 63% in pre-market trading. Signature Bank was halted for volatility ...
GE’s Big Plans Are Luring Wall Street Bulls. Target Price Doubled.
Wall Street is feeling more bullish about General Electric stock. Significantly more bullish in one instance. GE (ticker: GE) hosted its 2023 analyst and investor event in Cincinnati, Ohio on Thursday...
Consumer spending in China isn’t surging back yet, companies say
A JD.com courier drives past the Zaha Hadid-designed Galaxy Soho complex in Beijing, China, on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China has yet to see a strong reb...
Biden’s new budget cuts $31 billion in tax breaks for oil companies
President Biden’s 2024 budget released Thursday includes yet another broadside from the White House against oil companies. The budget proposal — which Republicans have said is going nowhere on Capitol...
Crypto VCs urge portfolio companies to pull funds from Silicon Valley Bank
Crypto-focused venture capital investors have advised their portfolio companies to withdraw funds from Silicon Valley Bank, which is struggling to reassure clients after moves to shore up its balance ...
Why DocuSign Stock Might Be Falling Despite Strong Earnings
DocuSign shares were trading lower after the electronic-signature software company posted better-than-expected results. DocuSign (ticker: DOCU) posted fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share...
Bakkt’s Q4 earnings dragged down by goodwill impairment charge of $272 million
Bakkt reported an increase in revenue and expenses in the fourth quarter, driven by another large impairment charge. Revenue came in at $15.6 million, below FactSet estimates of $16 million, but...
New York sues KuCoin, claims ether is an unregistered security
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued digital asset exchange KuCoin for violating New York laws governing the trading of securities and commodities, and named ether, among other tokens, as ...
Sam Bankman-Fried may need more time to review ‘substantial’ evidence, lawyers say
Sam Bankman-Fried may request to delay his October trial, his lawyers said in a letter to a federal judge this week. The disgraced FTX founder says he may need more time to review troves of evid...
Coinbase Ventures, Brevan Howard among early backers of compliant DEX Mauve
Violet, which offers compliance and identity infrastructure for decentralized finance, launched its compliance-focused decentralized exchange, Mauve. Coinbase Ventures and Brevan Howard joined t...
Grayscale CEO breaks down his firm’s legal strategy against the SEC
Episode 20 of Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify,...
Marathon ends its credit facilities with Silvergate, prepays loan
Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings said it repaid its term loan and ended its credit facilities with liquidating Silvergate Bank, reducing its debt by $50 million. “We have been actively ...
Grayscale’s Sonnenshein left ‘encouraged’ after hearing in SEC case
Grayscale Chief Executive Officer Michael Sonnenshein is optimistic following a hearing over the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rejection of his firm’s application for a spot bitcoin...
Silvergate will liquidate bank, wind down operations
Silvergate Capital Corporation said it will wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate the Silvergate Bank in accordance with applicable regulatory processes. “In light of recent indus...
Coinflex rebrands to OPNX with Leslie Lamb as CEO of 3AC founders’ latest venture
Coinflex is rebranding to Open Exchange (OPNX), Kyle Davies and Su Zhu’s latest crypto venture. New CEO Leslie Lamb shared the news on LinkedIn. The exchange, intended for trading claims a...
OpenSea, ConsenSys among prized crypto startups with shares available at big discounts
As the crypto industry suffers, decacorns can be yours at mere unicorn prices. Shares in numerous private crypto startups are currently being offered at sizable discounts on Birel.io, a platform...
Block solicits feedback for bitcoin ‘mining development kit’
Jack Dorsey’s Block is soliciting developer feedback for what it calls a bitcoin “mining development kit,” which it says could unleash further innovation in the Bitcoin mining space ...
Tesla Stock Is Down. Steering Wheels Are Not the Reason.
Safety matters a great deal in the automotive market. Safety recalls and investigations, paradoxically, don’t matter as much. Investors might not be able to tell that by looking at stocks. Tesla (tick...