Read more FDIC stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/18493/fdic.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:23:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74369/danger-signs-ignored-at-failed-banks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag"Post-mortems" on banks that failed during the financial crisis are exposing serious misjudgment by state and federal regulators. Inspectors-general are finding at bank after bank that regulators were aware that risky and potentially toxic loans were being made while the economy was booming, but failed to take action, the New...http://www.newser.com/story/74369/danger-signs-ignored-at-failed-banks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 3:43:11 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73724/dodd-unveils-sweeping-financial-overhaul-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChris Dodd introduced a sweeping financial regulation bill that creates no fewer than three new agencies to oversee the banking industry. Dodd’s bill creates an Agency for Financial Stability to identify systemic risks to the economy as a whole. It entrusts all bank supervision to the Financial Institutions Regulatory Administration,...http://www.newser.com/story/73724/dodd-unveils-sweeping-financial-overhaul-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 14:41:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73392/dodd-declares-war-with-senate-bank-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Senate bill that would fundamentally change the structure of banking regulation is headed for a clash with both the House and the White House. Christopher Dodd is readying a proposal to strip the Fed and FDIC of almost all bank-supervision powers, creating in their place a new agency that...http://www.newser.com/story/73392/dodd-declares-war-with-senate-bank-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 7:34:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73288/sorry-fdic-cant-guarantee-interest-on-that-cd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere’s a little-publicized part of your bank deposit the FDIC doesn’t insure, and it’s driving scrupulous savers up the wall. The logic is simple enough: When the FDIC takes over a failed bank and resells its assets, it allows buyers to alter interest rates, particularly on CDs. This actually makes...http://www.newser.com/story/73288/sorry-fdic-cant-guarantee-interest-on-that-cd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 9:38:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73003/feds-close-9-more-banks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRegulators have shut California National Bank of Los Angeles and eight smaller related banks as the weak economy continues to produce a stream of loan defaults. The banks closed yesterday by the FDIC were in California, Illinois, Texas and Arizona. They were divisions of privately held FBOP Corp., a bank...http://www.newser.com/story/73003/feds-close-9-more-banks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 31 Oct 2009 7:14:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70634/as-failures-mount-fdic-asks-banks-to-prepay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe FDIC is set to ask banks to prepay three years of fees to replenish its coffers after a wave of bank failures, estimated to cost as much as $100 billion. Banks would be asked to prepay $45 billion of their quarterly assessments, but they wouldn't have to report the...http://www.newser.com/story/70634/as-failures-mount-fdic-asks-banks-to-prepay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 7:03:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69979/fdic-may-borrow-billions-from-banks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter a year of government bailing out the banks, now the banks may bail out the government. Regulators are considering a plan for the FDIC, which protects bank depositors, to borrow billions from healthy banks, enabling the fund to refresh its accounts after a wave of bank failures. Banks and...http://www.newser.com/story/69979/fdic-may-borrow-billions-from-banks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 6:37:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67932/fdic-fund-falls-to-104b-as-banks-struggle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe FDIC's fund for protecting bank deposits fell in June to just $10.4 billion—the lowest balance since the savings and loan crisis—all but ensuring that the government will have to levy new fees on banks to replenish it, the Wall Street Journal reports. The fund topped $45....http://www.newser.com/story/67932/fdic-fund-falls-to-104b-as-banks-struggle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 11:02:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66980/southern-lender-becomes-years-biggest-bank-failure.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAlabama's Colonial Bank has collapsed in the sixth-biggest bank failure in American history, the Wall Street Journal reports. The lender, which had assets of $25 billion and 346 branches in five southern states, was an aggressive mortgage lender in overheated markets like Florida, and its failure will cost the FDIC...http://www.newser.com/story/66980/southern-lender-becomes-years-biggest-bank-failure.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 15 Aug 2009 5:59:56 CDT