Saturday, November 7, 2009

Regulators shut banks in 5 states; marks 120 US bank failures this year

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Banks-in-Ga-Mich-Minn-Mo-apf-3282864371.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=6&asset=&ccode=

Five more bit the dust last night

Regulators on Friday shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and California, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 120 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults on loans.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over United Commercial Bank in San Francisco, with $11.2 billion in assets and $7.5 billion in deposits. East West Bancorp Inc., parent company of East West Bank based in Pasadena, Calif., is buying all of the deposits and most of the failed bank's assets