SVB’s Lobby Groups Fought Proposal to Bolster Deposit Insurance

&quot;Now, the FDIC is attempting to sell SVB in order to pay its uninsured depositors. At the end of 2022, more than 90 percent of SVB’s $175 billion in deposits were uninsured by the federal agency.&quot;<p>&quot;The Deposit Insurance Fund had a balance of $128 billion at the end of 2022, a tiny fraction of the $9.9 trillion of insured bank deposits in the United States.&quot;