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In its busiest weekend in decades, the FDIC closed 5 more banks bringing the number of total bank failures to 45 for the year. This weekend exceeded the previous record when 4 banks failed on a single weekend in February.   Two of the seized banks were located in California, two more in Georgia and [...]

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)  seized 3 more banks over the weekend bringing the total bank failures for 2009 to 40. One bank was in North Carolina, another in Georgia, and the third was in Kansas.
The FDIC was appointed receiver of Cooperative Bank of Wilmington, N.C., Southern Community Bank of Fayetteville, Ga., and First [...]

Bank of Lincolnwood, Lincolnwood, Illinois, was closed today by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Banking, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.
The total number of bank failures now stands at 37 for the year.
Republic Bank of Chicago, Oak Brook, Illinois, Assumes All of the Deposits [...]

Omni National Bank was shut down on Friday by the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency). The OCC appointed the FDIC as receiver.
Omni National Bank had total assets of $956.0 million and total deposits of $796.8 million. At the time of closing, there were approximately $2.0 million in uninsured deposits that potentially [...]

The stock market will drop as major banks go belly up says Nouriel Roubini, the NYU economist that successfully predicted the current economic collapse. Below is the text from an interview Mr. Roubini gave  today on Bloomberg TV.
U.S. stocks will fall and the government will nationalize more banks as the economy contracts through the end [...]

Number 17 for 2009; 42nd Since Depression Began
Freedom Bank of Georgia, Commerce, Georgia, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Northeast Georgia Bank, Lavonia, Georgia, to assume [...]

Security Savings Bank: 16th Bank Failure of 2009

Security Savings Bank of Henderson, Nevada  was closed by regulators Friday, marking the 16th bank failure of 2009. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said the failed bank’s deposits have been assumed by Las Vegas-based Bank of Nevada. Security Savings Bank had $238.3 million in total assets and $175.2 [...]

Oregon’s Silver Falls Bank was closed Friday by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Citizens Bank, which will assume all of the deposits of the failed Silver Falls bank. Silver Falls [...]

Pinnacle bank of Oregon becomes the 4th bank failure this weekend and the 13th this year.
The Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities closed Pinnacle bank this Friday. The FDIC has announced that Washington Trust Bank in Spokane, Washington has agreed to assume all of the deposits of the failed bank.
Pinnacle Bank had assets of  [...]

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) announced  the failure of two more US banks (#10 and #11 for the year).

Nebraska -based Sherman County Bank was closed by regulators Friday, marking the 10th bank failure of the year. Sherman County Bank had roughly $129.8 million in assets as of Feb. 12, and $85.1 million in deposits. [...]