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it services banking crises: ETtech Opinion | IT services: how to succeed beyond the banking crises

2008 – The subprime crisis breaks in the US with the demise of Lehman Brothers and later in that financial year, an industry icon, Satyam, collapses. Both these events could have taken down less resilient industries and companies or at least led to a temporary decline in fortunes. As chairman of Nasscom that year, it was my task to boldly predict that the industry would weather the storm and still grow, and grow we did, albeit in single digits.This year, we have seen the sudden decline of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the…

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and its impact on Indian startups

Hi, this is Pranav Mukul in New Delhi. Late Friday evening, Santa Clara, California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a cornerstone of US technology and startup industry, went belly up, making it one of the largest bank failures after the 2008 financial crisis.This came barely two days after SVB announced it was conducting a share sale to cover up for the faster-than-expected decline it was witnessing in deposits. Following the news, both investors and customers of the bank started jumping off a sinking ship.What happened…