U.S. Bank Collapses Reach 157 This Year - Dec 2010
Bloomberg - 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. 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.
More than 500 banks may fail before the cycle that started in 2007 comes to a close, ?given the severity of the problems and the prolonged nature of the recovery,? Ely said.
The FDIC said last month that its list of ?problem? banks -- those at heightened risk of failure -- rose 3.7 percent to 860 in the third quarter, the most in 17 years. Banks on the confidential list had $379.2 billion in assets as of Sept. 30, down from $403 billion at the end of the second quarter.
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