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Jessica Simpson reveals that she used her house as collateral to buy back her namesake fashion brand two years ago when the company holding a majority share faced bankruptcy. After experiencing broken promises and disrespect from the conglomerate, Simpson decided it was time to take ownership of her billion-dollar company. Along with putting her home up as collateral, she liquidated her stock portfolio and even borrowed money from her mother. Despite the challenges, Simpson and her mother are determined to succeed and have plans to expand the brand into new categories, including haircare.
PacWest Bancorp's shares slumped 25% premarket as the bank pledged additional assets as collateral to increase its borrowing capacity under the US Federal Reserve's discount window and said it had $15 billion of immediately available liquidity. The lender pledged an additional $5.1 billion of its loans to the central bank on Wednesday, which PacWest said resulted in an additional borrowing capacity of $3.9 billion. The bank pledged additional assets as collateral for borrowings to increase its liquidity position for potential deposit outflows.
Cash-strapped banks have borrowed around $300bn from the Federal Reserve in the past week, with nearly half going to holding companies for two major banks that failed over the past week, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The rest of the money was borrowed by banks seeking to raise cash, likely to pay off depositors who tried to withdraw their money. The Fed's lending programs, particularly the new facility it unveiled on Sunday, enable financial institutions to post bonds as collateral and borrow against them, rather than having to sell them.
Cash-short banks have borrowed about $300 billion from the Federal Reserve in the past week, with nearly half going to holding companies for two major banks that failed over the past week. The rest of the money was borrowed by banks seeking to raise cash, likely to pay off depositors who tried to withdraw their money. The Fed's lending programs enable financial institutions to post bonds as collateral and borrow against them, rather than having to sell them.