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It's a little unique because it's a top 20 bank failing. As far as I can tell, it's not super unique in terms of % of fdic insured deposits.

As a whole it's like <30% FDIC insured in the whole US banking industry.

> they’ll probably get all their money but it will still be bad

They may not. Even for banks where most assets are FDIC insured, you'll see that not 100% of deposits are returned. Selecting a random recent one:

https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/dividends/bankfind/Dividendinde...

~95%.



Looks like 2.7% of their deposits were > 250k. So yes, it seems relatively unique (there are only 5 banks on this list with <15%).

https://twitter.com/GRDecter/status/1634208652595699713?s=20


You've got that backwards. Reread the tweet you linked to:

"Only 2.7% of SVB deposits are less than $250,000. Meaning, 97.3% aren't FDIC insured."

Not a good situation at all.


Aren't fully FDIC insured, yes?


Yes - if you have 5M$ in the bank, you'll have 250k$ of that insured. Not that comforting.


But if you put in $250k because you're responsibly splitting things across banks, and the interest you've made on it raised you to $252k, you're counted amongst the 97.3% and it's not a big deal.

I'm sure some people are out meaningful amounts of money, but I'm not sure what a typical account looks like.


It's 97.3% of deposits ($), not _depositors_


Hm, you may be right, though "deposits are less than" is a really weird way to phrase it in that case.




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