@crossriverbank@coinbase@circle 🧵2/Ω @CrossRiverBank et al. "specialized in dubious loans" and "did not get better over time" as "lenders often doubled or tripled their potential misreporting rates in round 3 compared to rounds 1 and 2."
Sounds like (extremely) willful negligence. @oooitscrime
🧵3/Ω @CrossRiverBank's executives anticipated that people would try to commit #PPP / covid relief fraud early in 2020 (w/in months of American pandemic's start), and yet as noted above 👆 they issued increasing percentages of fraudulent loans (and pocketed increasing fees).
🧵8/Ω #CelticBank (also being investigated!) did similar types of loans w/some of the same sketchy partners as @CrossRiverBank and yet the rate of fraud was around *half* that at CRB.
CRB emails "did not reflect the same rigorous and consistent oversight efforts" as Celtic. 🤔
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🚨Ω🚨 @coinbase's bank is being sued for predatory lending in a large class action lawsuit filed ~8 weeks ago.
It gets worse though... Because @crossriverbank is also starting to have to sue people for loans that are going bad. Financials only allow 1.6% loss. $COIN
Specific allegations about how @crossriverbank (@coinbase's bank! $COIN) broke the law and allegedly defrauded a bunch of people w/predatory "debt relief" lending along with #NewCreditAmerica
👀 lol #ScottShay (AKA #SignatureBank's theologian in residence, also known for his Gordon Gekko routine) got absolutely rekt on the final day of $SBNY trading. which I guess explains that weird bounce from $70 to $100 in the morning
🧵1/Ω A few things about @CrossRiverBank, a tiny #a16z funded lender that originated more #PPP loans for "small businesses" than anyone besides Chase, BofA, and Wells Fargo, mostly for people who were not their customers.
🧵2/Ω They paid @McKinsey a bunch of money to tell the world that "while most banks originated PPP loans to their own customers, Cross River leads in originations to new customers" mckinsey.com/industries/fin…
🧵3/Ω Unlike other banks that blew up on "fund banking" recently (*cough* $SBNY $SIVB *cough*) @CrossRiverBank does their "fund banking" differently:
They package all the loans and sell them to weird "fintech" companies like @Upstart. @mikulaja
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...
💥💥~ 1:33:40💥💥
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 👇
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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.