I don't want to beat a dead horse here too much but part of what I hope folks will understand is that any potential buyers also know what I know, they all know that once the liquidity crunch is resolved this is a viable business with good operations that ran profitably for a long time and the regulator would put a continuity plan in place immediately. It is not the case that "someone wanting to buy [..] it may appear more easily now" - all the potential buyers have clear expectations of continued operations. This is a matter of understanding banking as currently practiced, unfortunately there are a lot of folks 'round here that think this is like a retail bankruptcy and are spouting off on that basis instead of deferring to experts.

Depositors might choose to run, but any business that runs their payroll though SVB is going to ask their CFO what to do and that guy is going to say, "We're full guaranteed, how much money to you want to spend to accomplish nothing?"