Saturday, August 8, 2009

Regulators close 3 banks in Fla., Ore.; total 72

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090808/D99UFA180.html

Failure is an option or so it seems for those without the government connections of Wall Street.

The number of banks on the FDIC's list of problem institutions leaped to 305 in the first quarter - the highest number since 1994 during the savings and loan crisis - from 252 in the fourth quarter. The FDIC expects U.S. bank failures to cost the insurance fund around $70 billion through 2013.

The bank failure costliest to the fund came in July 2008 with the seizure of IndyMac Bank. The insurance fund is estimated to have lost $10.7 billion on the closure of the big California lender.

The largest