Silicon Valley Bank workers will get back $25M they set aside to buy its stock


Silicon Valley Bank employees got $25 million worth of good news Tuesday.

That's about how much they had set aside in a stock purchase program to buy shares of parent company SVB Financial Group before the bank was seized by regulators last month and SVB Financial filed for bankruptcy a week later. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has determined that money should be treated as insured deposits and returned to employees, according to a spokesperson for the agency. Affected workers will be reimbursed…

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