April 6th, 2023: @Twitter has been randomly shutting down API access for many apps and sadly we were affected today too. Hopefully we will be restored soon! We appreciate your patience until then.
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Amended $MCB 🧵: $MCB's auditor Crowe LLP raised a "critical audit matter" relating to the "qualitative" & "subjective" nature of $MCB's measurements of how many loans would go bad. (@RasooliSheida made a mistake w/r/t whether it was on the $MCB site but it's still bad.
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$MCB took a huge $35 million charge that wiped out their profits for 2022-Q4 in anticipation of getting fined civilly and possibly criminally for #PPP loan fraud of some kind.
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They did that because... they're under investigation. At the very least they are gonna get hit with major civil violations, but I have a hunch it will escalate to criminal bc of the #CryptoCom/#Binance connection... $MCB
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I will leave this mini-thread about how $MCB just hired the team that ran the extremely fraud prone EB-5 "greencards 4 cash" related program over at the now completely collapsed $SBNY right here:
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Given that everyone's a bubblin' about how commercial real estate is an absolute fucking train wreck that just keeps accelerating into what appears to be a brick wall, maybe good to note $MCB's loans are 80% CRE.
And 19% of those are in a category called "Other".
WTF?
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In addition to it's vast commercial real estate loan portfolio that is going to absolutely eat shit in the next few years $MCB has about a half billion in treasuries and mortgage backed securities...
Also all of the same long term kind that sank $SIVB.
ngmi
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If we look at $MCB's employees' work histories we find a whole lot of references to small banks convicted of fraud:
- $SBNY
- #CrossRiverBank (@coinbase's bank, #PPP loan fraud accusations f. Congress)
- #HSBC (🚩)
- Deutsche Bank
- Popular Bank
- Bank of China
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What's that thing the smart short sellers say about executives leaving the firm being the #1 best indicator that something is wrong at a company?
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Almost no one at $MCB has been there even two years. It makes me think the ongoing NYDFS investigation and soon to be written civil and / or criminal charges for the bank led NYDFS to restructure it...
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Morgan Stanley also reporting that $MCB has four (4!) active crypto clients as of January 2023 but then only lists 3 (and one of them might not be a "banking client").
Who are the other ones?
Also lol at all these sus banks offering #TassatPay AKA #SigNET by $SBNY.
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Countdown to $MCB's cry of "misinformation from short sellers"...
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Surely it's just a coincidence that $2 billion worth of #Tether was printed at what was probably the exact same hour on the same day the US government moved to dump $212 million in Bitcoin onto the market at #Coinbase and half of that was $USDT accepted in $COIN's market?
🚨 #CryptoCom is who $MCB is banking fren... All that USD flowing into and out of the American banking system seems to pass through them. And they are STILL banking #CryptoCom according to #CDC's own site.
1. You can't withdraw crypto. 2. Or use ACH payments. 3. Or a debit card. 4. Also our #ApplePay just got terminated 5. Wire transfer is green but wires only work during business hours aka "not right now"
Happy trading all you cute #Binancians! Let's post some fun memes about how all our money is gone forever!
Just to clarify it's only *some* crypto they admit you can't trade: $BUSD.
Also all of this is just temporary. I'm sure #BinanceUS will find a new banking partner "soon". After all it's only taken #Binance what, 70 days to find one?
$MCB sends out hail mary press release about their strong financial position as of yesterday (morning or afternoon? Funny you don't say...) at the end of a day their stock crashed almost 30%.
🧵 just to thread up this incredibly astute observation by @SEC_digger about which numbers $MCB chose not to update from where they were on Dec. 31st, 2022:
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It's interesting to look at what #CFTC is asking the court for in the #Binance complaint:
1. Stop all trading immediately 2. Give us all the money 3. Actually give us more than all the money 4. Including salaries of all executives (lol @prhillman) 5. Jury trial
@prhillman 6. No one associated with #Binance in any form should ever be allowed to trade commodities, futures, or other derivatives in the American market ever again ("permanent injunction")
* small correction: @PRHillmann is Binance US's CSO not CEO