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- Putting 106 Bank Failures into Perspective
- Earnings Call ExcerptSo far this year 106 banks have failed out of 8,195 FDIC-insured institutions, or slightly more than 1% of all banks. How does that compare to previous periods of financial stress and episodes of bank failures, and is there anything positive about bank failures?The graph above displays...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-29
- Causes of U.S. Bank Distress During the Depression
- This paper provides the first comprehensive econometric analysis of the causes of bank distress during the depression. It assembles bank-level data for virtually all Fed member banks, and combines those data with county-level, state-level, and national-level economic characteristics to capture cross-sectional and inter-temporal variation in the determinants of bank failure....
- White papers 2000-09-01
- Bank Failures: Should We Worry?
- The big U.S. banks are past the danger zone, but the number of small-bank failures this year is near 100. MoneyWatch's editors explain who is really affected.
- Videos 2009-10-15
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- Looking for a better way. (to handle uninsured deposits after a bank failure) (Editorial)
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp FDIC is making every effort to help uninsured depositors who have lost money after a bank failure. However, FDIC is constrained by the FDIC Improvement Act which requires the FDIC to use the least costly method in resoThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp FDIC is making...
- Research articles 1992-05-01
- Financial Roundup: SEC Decides To Keep Mark-To-Market, Citadel Retreats, New Bank Failure, Mortgage Mess
- Mark-to-market sticking around - Despite protests from the banking industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission will not suspend the controversial mark-to-market accounting rule. Some in the banking industry have blamed the accounting rule for worsening the credit crunch. The SEC, however, is open to discussing ways to refine the rule's...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Chicago Federal Grand Jury Investigates Bank Failure.
- By Melissa Allison, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 13--In a move rarely seen since the savings-and-loan and bank crises of a decade ago, a federal grand jury in Chicago is investigating a bank failure for possible criminal wrongdoing. ...
- Research articles 2001-12-13
- 100th Bank Failure Coming: Small Biz Loses in Recovery
- While everyone has been focused on big bank earnings this week, I've been thinking about small banks. The FDIC expects that these institutions will continue to be under pressure from bad loans made in the boom times. Soon, we're going to see the 100th bank failure in the US. It...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Bank Failure Friday Shutters Seven More
- Bank Failure Friday Shutters Seven, as the total for 2009 rises to 106 bank failures by Richard Suttmeier
- External links 2009-10-26
- What America?s 100th Bank Failure Means for Financial ETFs
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: The 100th bank failure of 2009 came on Friday, Oct. 23, and more followed suit. This grim milestone underscores that the financial crisis has shifted from the large banks down to the smaller ones. What will it mean for these ETFs? The troubles facing...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Bankruptcy Is Capitalism: Why Failure Does Us Good
- I hope you didn't let your guard down after the bank stress tests. This morning, we learned that BankUnited is the largest bank failure this year. Federal regulators seized the Coral Gables, Fla., institution at a cost to the FDIC of $4.9 billion. BankUnited is actually the second-largest bank to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Accounting firm makes payments related to bank failure
- Ernst & Young has agreed to pay $125 million to the FDIC over its role in the failure of Superior Bank in Hinsdale, Ill., three years ago. The FDIC paid about $700 million to handle the failure of the suburban Chicago institution. Ernst & Young was the outside auditor for...
- Research articles 2005-01-15
- Regulators Close Colonial Bank; Assets Sold to BB&T
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Colonial Bank, of Montgomery Ala., was shuttered on Friday and its assets sold to southeast regional bank BB&T Corp, marking the largest bank failure this year. The bank closure -- the 74th this year -- brings an end to the Alabama lender which has seen its...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Guaranty Bank Shuttered, Assets Sold to BBVA
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday closed Texas lender Guaranty Bank and sold its assets to Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria BBVA, allowing Spain's second-largest bank to expand its reach in the U.S. market. Guaranty, a unit of Guaranty Financial Group Inc GFG, is the 81st U.S. bank failure this...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Corus Seized in Fourth-Largest Bank Failure This Year
- Another big U.S. bank has gone under. The FDIC said late Friday that regulators have shut $7 billion-asset Corus Bank and that MB Financial Bank will purchased its deposits. The company is the fourth-largest bank to close the year, trailing BankUnited ($12.8 billion in assets), Guaranty Bank...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Bank Failure Friday Comes Early
- Tyler Durden submits: Failure Friday is early this week: today bank shoot green all the way to the grave is John Warner Bank, from Clinton, IL. Likely more to come today. The FDIC and State Bank of Lincoln entered into a loss-share transaction on approximately $31 million...
- External links 2009-07-02
- The euro: market failure or central bank failure?
- Why has the value of the euro fallen? This economist believes that the European Central Bank's efforts to support the euro slowed economic growth to the point that it caused the value of the euro to fall. He traces the ECB's policy errors in recent years as a failure to...
- Research articles 2002-05-01
- Another Weekend, Another Bank Failure
- Tyler Durden submits: Number 14 for the year, and the second one for Oregon in a week, is Silver Falls Bank in Silverton, Oregon. Citizens Bank of Corvallis, Oregon will assume all the deposits of Silver Falls. The bank most recently had total assets of $131 million and...
- External links 2009-02-22
- Why Citi's Failure Costs More than Saving It Does
- Chad Brand submits: Why has the government injected $45 billion into Citigroup C rather than simply let it fail? Believe it or not, because of how much it might cost the taxpayer to do so. I know that might sound backwards, but consider the largest bank failure so far,...
- External links 2009-02-25
- U.S. Bancorp Gets $18 Billion Seized Bank Assets
- By Sam Mircovich and Edwin Chan LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Bancorp on Friday acquired nine banks held by FBOP Corp, picking up $18.4 billion in assets after regulators seized a major Los Angeles lender and eight other banks in the latest failures to emerge from the financial crisis. Among...
- News items 2009-10-30
- FDIC Troubled Bank List Grows to 46% - Is Your Bank Safe?
- Trader Mark submits: As I wrote recently, I don't see much value in the FDIC Troubled Bank List considering two quarters ago it was missing IndyMac Bank - which went on to the largest bank failure at that time, and then last quarter [Aug 26: FDIC "Troubled Bank" List] ...
- External links 2008-11-26
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