The transaction, which excludes the assets and liabilities of SVB U.K.'s parent company, will protect the deposits of SVB U.K. clients, the U.K. Treasury said.
The U.K. is seeing a rise in the number of banks cracking down on crypto transactions.
The bank is currently hiring a Product Director for tokenization use cases and digital assets.
"As a bank, we're not getting into the crypto world, crypto trading, crypto exchanges," HSBC Group CEO Noel Quinn said in September.
As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the United Kingdom will ease its COVID protocols, major banks such as Goldman Sachs and HSBC have asked their employees to return to offices.
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Aside from anticipated loan losses and bankruptcies, banks are also dealing with very low interest rates.
Banks are researching whether the networks of the officials put them at risk.
Financial giant's earnings plunge to $3.1 billion form $10 billion a year ago; 35,000 workers to be laid off.
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The prominent investment bank could have up to 10% of its 39,000 employees graded as “underperformers” this year.
The bank did not disclose what percentage of senior staff are presently Black
Economists have assailed the proposal as unrealistic
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