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Once its becomes more clear how much SVB assets can be sold for and along what time frame, there will be plenty of firms willing to either: 1) purchase receivership certificates at a discount to expected value 2) issue bridge loans to cover the expected value of receivership certificates.

It's not a bail out in the sense of free money. It's a bail out in the sense of a short term loan, just like after the GFC.

The shortfall is much smaller.

The challenge is $80Bln mortgage-backed securities, which they likely have to sell at a 20-30% markdown and cover that.

This is the real question. How much are those MBS worth on the open market? Their value decreases every day as the fed keeps raising rates. I don't think anyone can really say what kind of hole SVB might be in right now.

Where are you getting 170b in shortfall?

In one of the other threads discussing this SVB was said to have ~$200B in assets, 93% of which were not covered by FDIC. That actually comes out to $186B.