Company specialized in services for crypto clients like FTX; As digital assets plunged Silvergate lost billions in deposits
Silvergate Capital Corp. plans to wind down operations and liquidate its bank after the crypto industry’s meltdown sapped the company’s financial strength. The shares plunged more than 40%.
“In light of recent industry and regulatory developments, Silvergate believes that an orderly wind down of bank operations and a voluntary liquidation of the bank is the best path forward,” the company said in a statement. “The bank’s wind-down and liquidation plan includes full repayment of all deposits.”
Silvergate collapsed amid scrutiny from regulators and a criminal investigation by the Justice Department’s fraud unit into dealings with fallen crypto giants FTX and Alameda Research. Though no wrongdoing was asserted, Silvergate’s woes deepened as the bank sold off assets at a loss and shut its flagship payments network, which it called “the heart” of its group of services for crypto clients.
“Today we are seeing what can happen when a bank is over-reliant on a risky, volatile sector like cryptocurrencies,” Senator Sherrod Brown, chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, said in a statement. “When banks get involved with crypto, it spreads risk across the financial system and it will be taxpayers and consumers who pay the price.”...
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