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reviseddamage: You were questioning why Atlas went with SVB and noted that SVB doesn't bank fin-tech in general.

There's no reason Stripe's selection of a payfac provider should (strongly) influence it's selection of a corporate/startup banking bizdev partner. Atlas is linking companies up to regular corporate banking services.

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That is also not what I was implying. Banking shell companies is a very high risk activity frowned upon by the OCC as most of the time they are mismanaged. Only larger banks have the flexibility and the bandwidth, and the contingency to manage them. It would seem only likely the the bank that is already banking Stripe, would be the likely one to also bank the shell co's that would be processing through Stripe. Easier on the bank to have oversight and line of sight of the business activities. SVB on the other hand without having other oversight on Stripe, really no vested interest in Stripe's success, and much smaller bandwidth and risk management resources is the banking partner for the shell co's, that is strange, which is what I noted. It is not a normal and natural event, hence my original question.

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