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Silicon Valley Bank: How A Bank Fails

Forbes Leadership

Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by regulators on Friday, March 10, in the largest bank failure since 2008. It appears that asset-liability mismatch was behind the bank’s problems.

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Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again

UVA Darden

The federal takeover has fueled fear among some that the failures are precursors to something akin to the Great Recession, when 450 banks failed between 2008 and 2012. Q: What led to the takeovers of Silicon Valley Bank in California and Signature Bank in New York? The bank also had long-dated assets.

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Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again

UVA Darden

The federal takeover has fueled fear among some that the failures are precursors to something akin to the Great Recession, when 450 banks failed between 2008 and 2012. Q: What led to the takeovers of Silicon Valley Bank in California and Signature Bank in New York? The bank also had long-dated assets.

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How Businesses Can Hold Their Banks Accountable on Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard to call yourself a green company if your cash assets are underwriting global warming.

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HR Finance 101: A Guide To Finance for HR

AIHR

A debit is an entry that increases the value of an asset or expense in an account or decreases the value of equity or liability. A credit increases a liability or equity or decreases the value of an asset or expense in an account. The term asset refers to anything with current or future economic value owned by a company.

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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

UVA Darden

supported global network of signatory institutions, which currently represent over $120 trillion in assets under management. Securities and Exchange Commission fined firms such as BNY Mellon and Goldman Sachs Asset Management for various ESG-related misstatements. 1 These factors include a firm’s environmental impact (e.g.,

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Where Are All The Black Investment Firms?

Chief Executive

This places Bay Street into the top 10 largest black-owned investment firms with assets totaling over $480 million. In 1874, the activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass became the president of Freedman’s Bank — the first African-American bank — shortly before it closed due to mismanagement by its white board of directors.

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