Seven U.S. banks closed; 2009 failures at 140

MarketWatch

based Hancock Bank has agreed to assume those deposits. Peoples First Community Bank's failure will cost the deposit-insurance fund $556.7 million, ...

New Bank Failures : Week of Dec. 21 TheStreet.com

Loan office closes as result of bank failure Times Daily

Bank Failure Friday:$14.5 Billion Combined Assets Seeking Alpha (blog)

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Lawmakers vow to probe bank's failure

The Durango Herald

The $1 billion failure of New Frontier Bank , Bennet said, devastated too many farmers and small-business owners across Colorado." Rep. ...

Failure of New Frontier Bank shows flaws in system Greeley Tribune

New Frontier Bank asked borrowers to buy stock Fort Morgan Times

Year in Review: New Frontier's collapse felt across county Greeley Tribune

Greeley Tribune

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Fifteen local banks under regulatory scrutiny for problems | Philadelphia ...

Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia region escaped last year with no bank failures , but that does not mean federal bank regulators are failing to scrutinize ...

Closure of New Frontier Bank still being felt The Coloradoan

Fifteen local banks under regulatory scrutiny for problems Philadelphia Inquirer



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New Frontier Bank failure highlights weaknesses

Denver Post

During the past two years, the FDIC has restored 260 staff positions to deal with surging numbers of bank failures , but they have not provided The Post with ...

New Frontier Bank asked borrowers to buy stock KRDO

Greeley's New Frontier Bank pushed boundaries Denver Post



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UK Government sets out plans to manage investment bank failures

Lexology (registration)

It is important that the government acts to ensure that any future failure of an investment bank does not cause the same degree of damage to markets or ...

First Federal Bank of California and Imperial Capital Bank of La Jolla closed

Los Angeles Times

Of California's 16 bank failures this year, First Federal and Imperial Capital rank No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, based on total assets. ...

Regulators Seize Imperial Capital Bank San Diego Business Journal



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Celebrating a Year of Highs and Lows

Wall Street Journal

15 Regulators seized Colonial Bank after they agreed to sell its deposits and branches to rival BB&T. It was the sixth-largest bank failure in US history. ...

Celebrating a Year of Highs and Lows Wall Street Journal



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The People's Bank goes bush

Business Spectator

As is now well understood, taxpayers have effectively said that they will insure away the risk of bank failure . This is an incredibly important policy ...

Nationwide adds to pressure for inquiry into bank failure

Irish Times

the call by the governor of the Central Bank for a public inquiry into the collapse of the banking system seems more apposite with each passing day. ...



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Xe missile contract dropped...Al-Qaida planner killed... Bank failure

9&10 News

washington (AP) Federal regulators have shut down Republic Federal Bank in Florida. It's the 131st US bank failure this year. ...



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OMG, what's happening? A year into Obama's reign, Ron Paul's loopy ideas now ...

Los Angeles Times

But Paul's anti-Fed message has drawn broad support because of the central bank's failure to restrain the flood of cheap money and excessive risk-taking in ...



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Cantwell-McCain to Be the New Glass-Steagall

CafeSentido.com

There were no cases of mass bank failure during the Glass-Steagall era. But the 2008 financial crash was directly linked to the overextension of banks that ...

Goldman's Inner Conflicts Also Need Unraveling: David Reilly Bloomberg

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Frontline: The Fall of Lehman

Culturekiosque

In the beginning, well before the bank failure that sent the country into full-scale financial meltdown in fall 2008, there were warning signs at Lehman ...

United Commercial Bank of San Francisco: Forgetaboutit

USA Today

You can read more here about the bank's failure and the FDIC's actions. The value, or lack thereof, of failed bank stocks has been covered extensively here ...

A Price Tag For Systemic Risk

Forbes

We disagree with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who asserts the fee should be paid after a bank failure and by other large institutions. ...

Downturn has been tough on local banks

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Southwest Florida has sought to excel in many things, but its current prominence is as the bank failure capital of the state. There are some analysts who ...



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The trembling eight

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Soludo told us the reason for recapitalisation was 1. so there will be no issue of bank failure . 2. so the banks can compete on the global scale. ...



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Clem's Chronicles: Health Care/Gitmo Detainees to America/Blind Recall

ABC News (blog)

As part of the $4 billion budget, the agency has also set aside $2.5 billion specifically for bank failures , nearly double the $1.3 billion in this year's ...

BSP defers risk coverage rule for banks to 2011

Inquirer.net

Compliance risks are those resulting from a bank's failure to comply with some of the reportorial and other requirements of the BSP. Non-compliance with BSP ...



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The Great Depression

Financial Times

But the 1929 crash ended all that; Roth began his diaries two years later, when bank failure after bank failure made it clear recovery was distant. ...