Read more Sheila Bair stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/34962/sheila-bair.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:31:14 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/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/67322/worlds-most-powerful-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGerman leader Angela Merkel keeps her spot as the world's most powerful woman for the fourth straight year on the annual Forbes list. Other notables in the top 100: Michelle Obama debuts at 40, just ahead of Oprah (41) and Queen Elizabeth (42). Hillary Clinton is 36, down from 28...http://www.newser.com/story/67322/worlds-most-powerful-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 21:54:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66217/fdic-chief-seeks-limits-on-eye-popping-banker-pay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe big banks should rein in the "eye-popping" salaries they pay top execs and shift to a more principles-based rewards system, FDIC chief Sheila Bair tells Bloomberg. Bair, along with House Democrats and New York's attorney general, says if the banks don't change their ways, regulators should set standards to...http://www.newser.com/story/66217/fdic-chief-seeks-limits-on-eye-popping-banker-pay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 6:05:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66024/geithner-flips-out-tongue-lashes-regulators.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe heat is apparently getting to Tim Geithner. At a meeting last week with high-level financial regulators, the treasury secretary indulged in a potty-mouthed diatribe about delays in the administration's highly touted plan to overhaul the regulatory system, declaring, "enough is enough," the Wall Street Journal reports. Attendees included Ben...http://www.newser.com/story/66024/geithner-flips-out-tongue-lashes-regulators.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 03 Aug 2009 22:44:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60343/fdic-may-ditch-public-private-bad-assets-plan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe government may scale back or put on hold parts of its controversial, slow-starting plan to get toxic assets off banks’ books, the Wall Street Journal reports. With both buyers and sellers expressing reluctance, and banks looking healthier, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp will likely delay next month’s scheduled test-run...http://www.newser.com/story/60343/fdic-may-ditch-public-private-bad-assets-plan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 28 May 2009 10:12:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59129/some-bank-bosses-face-axe-fdic-chief.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn “evaluation process” following banks’ stress tests will lead to the sacking of some execs, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Sheila Bair tells Bloomberg. “Management needs to be evaluated,” she noted. “Have they been doing a good job? Are there people who can do a better job?” Ten banks have...http://www.newser.com/story/59129/some-bank-bosses-face-axe-fdic-chief.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 15 May 2009 13:00:02 CDT