PNC Financial Group
decided against bidding on Silicon Valley Bank
as regulators struggled to find a buyer for the failed bank’s assets over the weekend, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Pittsburgh based bank sent an initial notice of interest to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for a deal for SVB and held brief and preliminary discussions with the agency, the source said.
However, after conducting initial due diligence, PNC informed the FDIC on Saturday that it would not move forward. This morning a representative of PNC told CNBC “I can confirm that PNC is not in talks to acquire SVB Financial or Silicon Valley Bank.”
Regulators shuttered SVB on Friday and seized its deposits in the largest U.S. banking failure since the 2008 financial crisis — and the second-largest ever.
On Sunday evening, the Federal Reserve, FDIC and Treasury Department announced a plan to guarantee the uninsured depositors at SVB get their money back.
