Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank adds over $3 billion in deposits in a single quarter
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Erebor Bank reported a large second-quarter jump in deposits, bringing total deposits to $4.06 billion by June 30. The bank also held $4.17 billion in cash and balances due from other banks at the end of the quarter.
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What it means
Startup-focused customers and the banking sector are the groups most likely to notice this change first, because Erebor Bank’s deposit base moved sharply over a single quarter and was described alongside startup banking vulnerabilities. That makes the bank’s scale of funding more visible in day-to-day monitoring, even though the figures alone do not say anything about future conditions.
In practice, the current picture is that Erebor Bank is reporting a much larger deposit base than before, with deposits at $4.06 billion after a quarter in which it added $2.96 billion. The quarter also ended with $4.17 billion in cash and balances due from other banks, which shows those balances were still present at that point.
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