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Let's talk about Metropolitan Community Bank (@MCBankNY, $MCB) one of the remaining publicly traded "crypto-friendly banks. Because the SEC filings look a lot like a mini-me version of our friend $SBNY.
Cash position down 90% YoY 👇
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$MCB has $2.2 billion - 42%! - in uninsured, non-interest bearing accounts.
In other words someone is willing to set $132 million a year on 🔥 because of inflation just to hold money in $MCB.
Why?
(note that $SIVB and $SBNY also had large non-interest bearing accounts)
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$MCB also of course has large unrecognized losses due to the "duration mismatch" problem that rekt $SI and $SIVB ¹.
¹ though other things rekt $SIVB even more...
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Also just like $SI and $SBNY, $MCB has started tapping its advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank system (#FHLB). However $MCB isn't primarily a residential lender and has less borrowing power.
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The critical $MCB numbers that are Not Good:
➤ $5.3 bn in deposits
➤ $5.2 bn in high flight risk deposits (!)
➤ $2.2 bn in **extremely** high flight risk deposits
vs.
➤ $257 mm cash
➤ $872 mm advance available from #FHLB
You see the problem here?
@MCBankNY Oops typo - should say $250mm instead of $230mm in $MCB deposits. Doesn't make a huge diff.
🧵6/Ω And this is **before** we even start talking about the fact that $MCB is the bank for #CryptoCom, which is a giant scam whose € bank accounts were already seized for money laundering.
🧵7/Ω Unfortunately for $MCB scam companies run by money launderers (#CryptoCom) have a habit of wiring all the money out as soon as feds start sniffing around.
We saw this with $SBNY... $17bn wired out at last minute. $1bn of $TUSD backing to #CapitalUnionBank in The Bahamas.
🧵8/Ω One more $MCB thing I just noticed: as of Dec. 31th the bank had $257 million in cash and $250 million in advances from the #FHLB.
So 97% of cash $MCB has on hand is from a government program to support home loans for the middle class.
Remind you of anyone? (hint: $SI)
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The first time it comes out on the floor of the Congress that we just bailed out a bunch of Chinese tech millionaires with links to the PRC at American citizens' expense...
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It gets even better when @SecYellen says that there will be no bailouts for anyone who holds more than $250,000 in a rural bank in Oklahoma that collapses [due to the Fed raising rates so quickly].
Trust me when I say you're gonna hear a lot about this for the next forever.
Without even commenting on right vs. wrong, I can just tell you this is the 2024 campaign:
Dems: "YOU ROLLED BACK REGULATIONS!"
Repubs: "YOU BAILED OUT COMMUNIST CHINAMEN!"
ad infinitum.
Here are some very wise words from the very wise wizard Chanos 👇
They backed the most of NYC's worst landlords. And let me tell you it is an achievement to get on the worst landlord watchlist. These are landlords who are collecting rent while racking up hundreds or even thousands of violations.
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They also were a big player in the NY taxi medallion racket by which enormous numbers of hard working immigrants who thought they had achieved financial freedom by taking out a mortgage to buy a tax medallion were ruined.
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And now it looks like they may have been cooking the books the whole time.
folks who still believe the noise about $SIVB just being duration mismatch: have you considered this?
get depositor money →
lend VC cash →
VC funds co. →
VC requires co. keep deposits at $SIVB →
voila! yr loan is now a deposit in yr bank
...which you can lend out again
look at the $SIVB balance sheet anon. here I'll make it easy for you:
🧵 When $60 billion in Ponzi scheme loans to tech bros & crypto crooks go bad (and we'll know how bad once the auction prices come out) who foots the bill anon?
Every American with a bank account will. Maybe not in taxes, but in bank charges. #VentureSocialism
And big ups to @crypto1nfern0 who helped me gather all the information for the original FUD piece in December and much FUD since then. Couldn't have done it w/out you.