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Re: SVB customers who lost their deposits remain on the hook for loans

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>Also, this wasn't a US bank! It wasn't under FDIC control That's the part that I disagree with. My understanding is that FDIC took possession and sold off the International loans to bank number two, but did not discount them by the international account balances. It doesn't seem right to me that the FDIC can say "it's not my problem we don't have control“ while simultaneously taking and selling the international loa…

You are right the FDIC did take control. International accounts of the FDIC ensured banks are explicitly not protected. In any case, those people who complain should take it up with the FDIC.

Which they are, and FDIC now has to choose whether it's going to take back the loans it's sold off to pay the account holders.

This isn't about what happens to FDIC insured accounts, it's about how to apply pre-existing FDIC policy for handling non-insured accounts. The regulation is very clear on how not insured accounts get offset in some cases and the regulations are unclear or discretionary in other cases.

This goes full circle back to my original point that if the FDIC takes control of the International loans, but they should deduct the value of that counts from those loans, just like they did for the majority of the customers

Re: SVB customers who lost their deposits remain on the hook for loans

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Why exactly do you think people use the Caymans at all then? If it's as you claim the surely keeping the money domestic makes more sense? Of course the truth is more complicated, and you even skirt around it with "global funds", i.e. a way to operate without repatriating the money and paying taxes.

People use Cayman because it’s a neutral and safe jurisdiction for global funds which plays nicely in the global financial system. If you keep money in the US, and the beneficial owner of that money is in Singapore/UAE/China/etc, then profits are taxed twice. If you operate in USA but earn money globally, then you’re subject to at least double, but sometimes a polynomial combination, of reporting and filling obligati…

> If you operate in USA but earn money globally, then you’re subject to at least double, but sometimes a polynomial combination, of reporting and filling obligations from combinations of jurisdictions.

Again, you literally state that it's for tax avoidance. Are you reading your own words?

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