https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7b4jx/silvergate-svb-failing-banks-economy > This week, amid mounting worries about a looming recession that may have already begun, two banks in the United States collapsed.  > Both banks served the technology industry—already heavily hit by interest rate hikes and the general downturn as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine—albeit in different ways.