Well, stock markets are down quite a bit today as well. But banks are getting hit harder than the average stock, and that is probably a knee-jerk reaction to the problems in the US.
There are both similarities and differences between Silicon Valley Bank and other banks. One similarity is that all banks own bonds and have made large losses on them lately. At Silicon Valley Bank, the loss on bonds was the spark that lit the fire.
However, Silicon Valley Bank owned an unusually large amount of bonds, and its losses were thus much greater than at most other banks.
The massive bond losses forced Silicon Valley Bank to issue new shares, and when the share issue failed, fear spread and customers withdrew their money from the bank.
No bank can handle the kind of outflows that Silcon Valley Bank experienced. That is just how banks work. They fund themselves with deposits which can be withdrawn instantaneously and to some extent bonds with relatively short duration (up to 5-10 years). They then make loans with up to a 30+ years horizon (e.g. mortgages).
When it comes to Oma, it has already recognized rather large losses on its bonds (due to rising interest rates). That is why its equity has declined quite considerably lately. However, its capital position is still strong and well above regulatory limits. And it will get even stronger when Liedon is integrated, and then stronger again when it changes to a less conservative method for calculating capital position.
Additionally, Oma is now hedging against the type of losses described above. It started doing so in Q4 2022. Supposedly, that means no more losses, even if interest rates keep rising.
It would be interesting to know how much of Oma’s deposits are insured. According to EU legislation, deposits of up to EUR 100,000 per person are insured by the state. Silicon Valley Bank had many large (corporate) clients with lots of money in their accounts, and thus a large share of uninsured deposits. Since Oma is a bank for “regular people”, I suspect a large share of Oma’s deposits are insured, meaning people are hopefully less nervous and less likely to withdraw their deposits.
In short: there is nothing to fear but fear itself. Everything is fine as long as nothing makes a large number of customers withdraw all their money. That goes for any bank that is somewhat prudently managed and it certainly goes for Oma.