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U.S. Bank Collapses Reach 157 This Year as Six More Lenders Are Shuttered
Dakin Campbell
Bloomberg
December 17, 2010
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Regulators shuttered six banks holding a total of
$1.23 billion in assets, including three in Georgia
and one each in Arkansas, Minnesota and Florida,
as real-estate losses drive this year’s bank failures to 157.
Florida has lost 29 lenders this year while 21 banks in
Georgia were seized, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
said today in statements on its website. Regulators have
closed 322 banks since the start of 2008. Today’s six
closures cost the FDIC’s deposit-insurance fund a
total of $267.6 million.
“We’re over the hump in terms of number of failures and
the average size, and potentially in the cost of them,”
Bert Ely, a banking consultant in Alexandria, Virginia,
said in an interview. The crisis is “far from over but
we’re making headway.”
Dakin Campbell
Bloomberg
December 17, 2010
<--- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-18/u-s-bank-collapses-reach-157-this-year-as-six-more-lenders-are-shuttered.html
Regulators shuttered six banks holding a total of
$1.23 billion in assets, including three in Georgia
and one each in Arkansas, Minnesota and Florida,
as real-estate losses drive this year’s bank failures to 157.
Florida has lost 29 lenders this year while 21 banks in
Georgia were seized, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
said today in statements on its website. Regulators have
closed 322 banks since the start of 2008. Today’s six
closures cost the FDIC’s deposit-insurance fund a
total of $267.6 million.
“We’re over the hump in terms of number of failures and
the average size, and potentially in the cost of them,”
Bert Ely, a banking consultant in Alexandria, Virginia,
said in an interview. The crisis is “far from over but
we’re making headway.”
