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It is reported that Bob Elliot, a senior executive of Qianqiao Water Fund and CEO of Unlimited, an investment company, said in a social media message that the decisions of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on the future of Silicon Valley banks may affect regional banks in the United States and cause them to face trillions of dollars of run risk. Bob Elliot disclosed data that nearly one third of the deposits in the United States are deposited in small banks, of which 50% are uninsured, and the proportion of uninsured deposits in credit cooperatives is even higher. According to the data of the Federal Reserve, as of February 2023, small banks in the United States have $6.8 trillion in assets and $680 billion in equity. The collapse of Silicon Valley banks will bring “the risk of running thousands of small banks”. （Cointelegraph） Qianqiao Water Fund executives: regional banks in the United States may face…