Biggest Banking Failures


AmTrust Bank - Fourth Largest Banking Failure Of 2009

AmTrust And 5 Other Banks Closed By Regulators
Regulators closed an additional six banks today, bringing total banking failures for the year to 130 compared to 25 bank failures during 2008.   Three of the failed banks were located in Georgia, and one each in Illinois, Ohio and Virginia.
The failure of Ohio’s AmTrust Bank was the fourth [...]

5 Banking Failures For November 6, 2009 Include 4th Largest Bank Failure Of 2009

120 Banking Failures In 2009

Regulators closed 5 additional failed banks today in California, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan and Georgia.  Four of the five failed banks were relatively insignificant, having only 8 branches and total assets of $400 million.
The largest failed bank of the week was United Commercial Bank, San Francisco, CA which had $11.2 billion in [...]

5 Failed Banks For August 14, 2009 Include 6th Biggest Banking Failure In U.S. Histroy

Banking Failures - 77 And Counting
2009 has now seen a total of 52 more failed banks than occurred for all of 2008.  The latest banking closures by the FDIC bring total banking failures for 2009 to 77.  The latest five failed banks on August 14, 2009 had total assets of $26.8 billion and total losses [...]

Five Largest Failed Banks - The Biggest One Is Not On The FDIC Failed Bank List

Five Biggest Bank Failures Ever
As the US banking crisis grew steadily worse during 2008, the largest bank failure as of July 2008 (Indy Mac) ranked only number 3 on the list of the largest bank failures in history.
5 Biggest Bank Failures As Of July 2008
Institution Name                    Date                $Assets Billions
Continental Illinois                 5/1984                  $40
First Republic Bank                 7/1988                  [...]