Regulators closed five banks today in Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Washington and Oregon. The five failed banks had total assets of $3.2 billion and total deposits of $2.6 billion. The total cost to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund for the five failed banks is estimated at $531.7 million or 17% of total assets. The cost […]
FDIC Sells Failed Bank Loans At Steep Discount
January 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Private Investors Make Very Leveraged Bet On Asset Value Recovery The FDIC currently holds approximately $30 billion in failed bank assets from banks that have failed in the past 18 months. The assets held by the FDIC were of such dubious quality that the FDIC was unable to entice acquiring banks to purchase them, despite […]
Buyers For Failed Banks Hard To Find As FDIC Loses $1.8 Billion On 7 Bank Closings
December 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
7 Banking Institutions Closed On December 18, 2009 – FDIC Forced To Retain $1.9 Billion In Failed Bank Assets – Depositors Lose $3.2 Million As the number of banking failures increase, the FDIC appears to be encountering increasing difficulty in finding buyers for failed banks, despite agreeing to cover a large percentage of potential losses […]
AmTrust Bank – Fourth Largest Banking Failure Of 2009
December 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
Bank Lending Implodes And Loan Defaults Hit Record Levels
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FDIC 2009 Third Quarter Banking Profile Depicts Troubled Banking Industry The FDIC released its Quarterly Banking Profile today which shows continued deterioration in the financial performance of the banking industry during the third quarter of 2009. The Quarterly Banking Profile depicts a banking industry that continues to struggle as shown by deteriorating loan quality, increased […]