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They are keeping this quiet, but this affects 2.9% of US bank customers.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

o.O so it's not a bank that has failed, rather a banking middleman who provides Banking as a Service (BaaS)

Look, if silicon valley bank collapse didn't trigger a meltdown then this wont either.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 0 points 3 months ago

Silicon Valley Bank was bailed out entirely by the FDIC. And so there were no liquidity issues. 2.9% of real people have been able to not access their money this time. That did not occur last time.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Eh, it's just fintech nonsense. As long as you don't use sketchy banking-esque products, you should be fine.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago

For now, yes. Last year, it was tech. This year, it's fintech, which is still tech. And we've got the looming tsunami wave of commercial office space on the horizon, too. Last year, nobody had any issues getting their money. This time, 2.9% of people did. What will it be next time?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

There will always be something to trigger a market correction. Fintech is a good guess since they have kind of followed the wave of tech hype, but I highly doubt it'll trigger anything more than a modest market correction in the finance sector.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

It's not "the beginning of a meltdown" because everybody still owns all their money and no bank is failing. There's a customer service issue for users of a non-bank service. That is part of the risk you take when you're putting money in a non-bank.

It sucks for the users obviously but like where would a contagion even begin? This is already the largest BaaS middleman. This is as big as this issue gets.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town -1 points 3 months ago

This may be as big as this particular issue gets, sure. But we had bank failures last year, which resulted in nobody losing access to their money for any period of time. Then this year, we've had 3% of people lose access to their money for two weeks. What will it be next? From what I understand there are 61 or 63 banks on the FDIC's list of problem banks which is a very good indication that they are likely to fail.

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