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As long as you have 25k in the account they won’t charge the fee.

I thought SVB got rid of the startup accounts?

They jacked up our monthly fee to like $100/month and we ended up moving to Chase.

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Wow.

They charge people for privilege of giving them $25k+ to reinvest at their discretion for their own benefits?

This is lol.

It is completely bonkers. But it seems to be working for them, apparently they done quite well last year - got some nice tax cuts too!

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/27/svb-financial-grou...

Administering a checking account is not cost-less. Looks like SIVB’s return on assets is 1.87% [1] implying $467 of annual revenue for the account at $25k average balance. This is probably more or less break-even (maybe it’s $200?) - point being is they lose money on small accounts...

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SIVB/key-statistics?p=SIVB

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