_Everybody_ in banking is supposed to be aware that if the interest rate goes up the spot or mark-to-market value of a bond goes down. This is not something complicated like Black-Scholes.
Everybody in banking is able to see the inflation prints and aware that increasing inflation may cause the central bank to raise rates. A bunch of people failed to spot this and have since been sacked and/or lost their equity in SVB.
They didn't fail to spot it. They just didn't anticipate them to be so drastic in such a short time span. It's barely a week ago Jerome Powell said their own prognoses were still wrong.
Everybody in banking is able to see the inflation prints and aware that increasing inflation may cause the central bank to raise rates. A bunch of people failed to spot this and have since been sacked and/or lost their equity in SVB.