🍴 About to dig in to the congressional report on covid relief / #PPP loan scams. @CrossRiverBank's name comes up 16 times when I ctrl-f.

Reminder this is the most important crypto bank in America. It's @Coinbase and @Circle's bank, among others.
permanent.fdlp.gov/gpo189524/2022…
@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).
🧵4/Ω
@KabbageInc, whom @CrossRiverBank chose as a partner for their #PPP lending program, was an obvious fraud.

Also funny how $CUBI, one of the other "crypto-friendly" banks also chose to partner with #Kabbage for #PPP loan issuance.

"The company you keep..."
🧵5/Ω
Unsure if it was @KabbageInc, @CrossRiverBank, or $CUBI who issued large #PPP loans to

1. An orange grove in Minnesota
2. A cattle ranch on a sand bar on the Jersey shore

But it was definitely one of them. Sounds like world class compliance teams at work.
🧵6/Ω
@KabbageInc approved a big #PPP loan to a company called "Deely Nuts" for "tree nut farming" in coastal New Jersey.

You really can't make this stuff up. #DeelyNuts
🧵7/Ω
The congressional report identifies the fact that poor fraud controls made @Bluevine a popular avenue for #PPP loan fraud.

@CrossRiverBank has partnered with #Bluevine since 2010. 🤔
🧵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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Mar 20
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@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

ruh roh
@coinbase @crossriverbank 🧵2/Ω Kinda f'ed up other thread so I'm gonna copy these over here. tl;dr #seemsbad for @crossriverbank and $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
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👀 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

at least a $3 million loss. @NotChaseColeman ImageImageImage
@NotChaseColeman oh Scott, your 500,000 shares of $SBNY were an equity allocation of infinite jest.

➤ worth over $150 million at all time high...
➤ $77 million on February 1st...
➤ $50 million on March 9th...

...and now it's a $0.
@NotChaseColeman whoops I read that wrong, I guess the noted theologian only lost $414,000 on the final morning.

gg scott!
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Mar 18
Here's @CrossRiverBank's details over at #FDIC. Various addresses, FDIC ID numbers, charter info, etc. in case anyone's looking to dig around.

Note that for their first 5 years they were rated "Needs to improve" as a bank.

#lolbank
banks.data.fdic.gov/bankfind-suite…
@crossriverbank 🧵 Who else didn't know that @CrossRiverBank changed its name from #FirstFinancialBank in 2008?
state.nj.us/dobi/bnk_depos…
🧵 @CrossRiverBank is technically owned by #CRBGroup (seems like it's not the same as @CRBgrp?), a holding company in Fort Lee, NJ. Apparently #JoannaAlbertine is the CFO.

Here's their annual filings in NJ: ffiec.gov/npw/Institutio…
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Mar 17
🧵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.

Also @Coinbase's preferred bank.
techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/cro…
🧵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
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Mar 16
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Here it is folks.

The moment you've been waiting for.

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)
🧵3/Ω
$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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