Crypto firm Circle hit by Signature Bank closure

Circle, the company behind stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), plans to line up a new transaction banking partner with automated minting and redemption, possibly as early as Monday, Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Circle said in a tweet. State regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank on Sunday, just two days after California authorities shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), in a collapse that roiled global markets and stranded billions of dollars of deposits.

• 2023-03-13
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Crypto Shaken as SVB Risk Depegs Second-Largest Stablecoin

(Bloomberg) -- The fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank reached further into crypto, unhinging a key cog in the market that’s meant to be among the safest digital assets in the space.Most Read from BloombergStartup Bank Had a Startup Bank RunSVB’s 44-Hour Collapse Was Rooted in Treasury Bets During PandemicSVB’s Auction Block Includes VC-Focused Lender, Wealth UnitSilicon Valley Bank Swiftly Collapses After Tech Startups FleeFrom Santa Clara to Shoreditch, SVB Fallout Spreads Around W

• 2023-03-12
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