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Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) offices successful the US were unopen arsenic customers sought their funds
The authorities is moving connected a program truthful that UK tech firms caught up successful the illness of Silicon Valley Bank won't tally retired of cash, it has said.
The Treasury wants to "minimise harm to immoderate of our astir promising companies successful the UK" aft the collapse.
US regulators unopen down the slope connected Friday successful what is the largest nonaccomplishment of a US slope since 2008.
The bank's UK subsidiary volition beryllium enactment into insolvency from Sunday evening.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey person been holding talks implicit the play successful effect to the illness of Silicon Valley Bank UK.
The Treasury said connected Sunday greeting that the the contented is simply a "high priority".
It said the bank's nonaccomplishment could deed UK tech companies hard, and that it was "working astatine pace" connected a solution.
It added it would "bring guardant contiguous plans to guarantee the abbreviated word operational and cashflow needs of Silicon Valley Bank UK customers are capable to beryllium met".
SVB collapsed successful the US aft failing to rise to rise $2.25bn (£1.9bn) to plug a nonaccomplishment from the merchantability of assets, chiefly US authorities bonds, that were affected by higher involvement rates.
Its troubles prompted a tally connected the slope successful the US and sparked capitalist fears astir the wide authorities of the banking sector.
Silicon Valley Bank specialised successful lending to early-stage businesses, and the institution banked astir fractional of US venture-backed exertion and healthcare companies that listed connected banal markets past year.
The firm, which started arsenic a California slope successful 1983, expanded rapidly implicit the past decade. It employs much than 8,500 radical globally, with astir of its operations successful the US.
But it has been nether unit arsenic higher rates marque it harder for start-ups to rise wealth done backstage fundraising oregon stock sales. More clients were withdrawing deposits successful a inclination that snowballed past week.
Silicon Valley Bank UK has stopped making payments oregon accepting deposits anterior to going into insolvency from Sunday.
The determination volition let idiosyncratic depositors to beryllium paid up to £85,000 from the UK's deposit security scheme.
"SVBUK has a constricted beingness successful the UK and nary captious functions supporting the fiscal system," the Bank of England said aft the US collapse.
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