First Republic Bank

First Republic Bank appears in Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis as the immediate contagion-risk example during the Silicon Valley Bank weekend. Ron Conway says the group worried that if SVB deposits were not guaranteed before markets opened, bank-run fear could spread, with First Republic already rumored to be at high risk.

The source uses First Republic less as a standalone bank history and more as evidence for Moral Hazard Contagion Tradeoff. If the issue were only one failed bank, moral hazard would dominate; if other banks could be pulled into runs, the episode argues that Deposit Guarantee Crisis Response became a systemic-stability question.

Connections

• Silicon Valley Bank, [[FederalDepositInsuranceCorporation|FDIC]], and [[USTreasury|U.S. Treasury]] - crisis and regulator context.
• Accelerated Bank Runs, Deposit Guarantee Crisis Response, and Moral Hazard Contagion Tradeoff - concepts grounded by the source.
• Ron Conway and Civic Relationships As Crisis Infrastructure - actor and network path in the episode.