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What Really Happened To Silicon Valley Bank | Ken Wilcox (SVB CEO 2001 - 2011) on SVB’s Collapse and How China Took Over Shanghai SVB

2025/2/12
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Ken Wilcox: 作为前硅谷银行CEO,我亲历了SVB从一家小型银行成长为专注于科技行业的金融机构的过程。我们最初的三条腿凳业务模式包括房地产和小企业贷款,但后来我们决定专注于科技公司,特别是早期风险投资支持的公司。这种模式使我们能够与风险投资公司建立联系,并在公司发展壮大时保持合作关系。在我的领导下,SVB扩展到海外,包括以色列、印度和中国。然而,2023年3月发生的SVB倒闭并非业务模式的问题,而是一个巨大的财务错误,尤其是在COVID-19期间美联储注入大量流动性之后,银行未能有效管理存款和利率风险。我一直强调银行不应过度增长,并应将部分存款转移到货币市场基金以降低风险。在我的任期内,我们鼓励客户将部分资金存入货币市场互助基金,以减轻资产负债表的压力,并降低欺诈风险。然而,在我离开后,这一做法似乎被放弃了,导致银行面临更大的风险。 Jack Farley: 我认为硅谷银行的倒闭,虽然不是因为传统的信贷风险,而是由于利率风险,这与它的业务模式密切相关。SVB依赖于从风险投资公司获得大量无息存款,这使得银行的存款基础非常不稳定,容易受到快速提款的影响。虽然SVB在资产方面专注于技术贷款和资本调用贷款,但在负债方面,其存款基础对利率变化非常敏感。当美联储提高利率时,SVB持有的长期固定收益证券的价值下降,导致重大损失。这种资产负债错配,加上社交媒体加速的银行挤兑,最终导致了SVB的崩溃。虽然Ken强调了财务团队的错误,但我认为SVB的业务模式本身就存在固有的风险,尤其是在利率上升的环境下。

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Ken Wilcox's career path transitioned from a professor of German Studies to a commercial banker, eventually leading him to become CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). His journey began at Shawmut Bank in Boston before joining SVB's small Boston outpost and eventually rising to the CEO position in 2001.
  • Ken Wilcox's background as a professor of German Studies.
  • His initial role as a regional VP in Boston for SVB.
  • The three-legged stool business model of SVB.
  • His rise to CEO and the pivotal decisions he made.

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Kenneth Wilcox served as the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank from 2001 to 2011. He reflects on 30 years of service to SVB and its customers, as well as the stunning collapse of the institution in March 2023. Wilcox shares his findings from his new book, “The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice,” in which he describes in detail how the Chinese wing of Silicon Valley Bank (“Shanghai SVB”) was serially hampered and eventually taken over by Chinese bankers acting in concert with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Recorded on February 11, 2025. 

Ken Wilcox’s book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/China-Business-Conundrum-Win-Win-Companies/dp/1394294166

Ken Wilcox’s book on Wiley: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+China+Business+Conundrum%3A+Ensure+That+%22Win-Win%22+Doesn't+Mean+Western+Companies+Lose+Twice-p-9781394294169

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