I have provided below a link to the Federal Reserve Report re SVB. The Report is 118 pages. I have briefly reviewed the report, but have not studied it. Suffice it to say that the Report is very critical. The following is the first paragraph from the initial Report summary:
You can read the entire report yourself (see below). The Report discusses several failures. Globally these are issues of risk management, governance, diligence, legal compliance, investigation, audit, and business judgment – my reference to “audit” in this sentence is as a process or activity that people of all positions do generally (and not to the specific external or internal audit functions).
When reading the report, you should also keep in mind that from a legal perspective, a failure or a negative event does not by itself necessarily result in entity liability or individual liability for the event or for the damages that resulted if proven. Authority, duty, rights, breach of duty, causation, and damages are complicated issues of law, fact and (admissible) evidence that need to be investigated, discovered, evaluated, and adjudicated (or mediated or otherwise settled) on a case-by-case basis.
At least for now I have decided to not get into the weeds and to not discuss the Report in detail item-by-item. However, for your reading below I have provided the full Federal Reserve Report:
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David Tate, Esq.
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