Fdic Chairman Sheila Bair

Former Regulator May Be Tapped To Monitor Foreclosure Settlement

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Sheila Bair Mortgage Settlement, Financial Crisis, 2008 Financial Crisis, Video, Mortgage Settlement, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Attorney General, Too Big to Fail, Business News

An outspoken critic of big banks and their mortgage practices leading up to the financial crisis may be tasked with making sure they comply with a lon...

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Departing Regulator: Government, Banks Suffer From 'Short-Termism'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 08.25.2011

Read More: Financial Industry, Fdic, Wall Street, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Banks, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Banking Industry, Financial Regulation, Business News

Sheila Bair, outgoing chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said on Friday that the American government and financial system are in danger of ...

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The Great American Payout

Tom Silva | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Real Estate, Fdic, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Bank Bailout, Business News

America is a nation of optimists. Just two years after declaring this the worst financial crisis since the Depression, it now appears that we are starting to ante up again by releasing our cash.

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FDIC: The Government's Job-Killer

Halsey Minor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Foreclosure Crisis, Unemployment, Fdic, Bailout, Jobs, Banks, Foreclosure, Bank Bailout, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Business News

The FDIC is presiding over one of the greatest wealth transfers in American history. And if no one speaks up, it will continue to hand American businesses off to international bankers for pennies on the dollar.

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Why I Fight

Halsey Minor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Silverton Bank, Bank of America, Banks, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Thomas Jefferson, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Charlottesville, Politics News

Banks bailed out because they were too big to fail get bigger as they swallow the portfolios of smaller banks the government decides are expendable. Projects like mine are considered collateral damage.

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FDIC Head Sheila Bair: Let Banks Keep Derivatives

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: FDIC Derivatives, Fdic, Derivatives, Derivatives Reform, Financial Reform, Derivatives Regulation, Derivatives Banks, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair Derivatives, Financial Regulation, Business News

WASHINGTON — A top government banking regulator wants Senate Democrats to let banks keep most of their business in complex – and profitabl...

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Cartoon: Tea Party Puppets

Shan Wells | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Financial Reform, Banking Regulation, Banking Crisis, Banking Reform, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Tea Party, Republican Party, Denver News

The upcoming battle over banking regulations promises to have every bit of the nutty gasbagging we witnessed last summer as the health care debate raged.

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Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Plan Lagging, New Data Shows (EXCLUSIVE)

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Treasury Department, Elizabeth Warren, Jim Jordan, Wall Street Bailout, Loan Modification, Obama Administration, Exclusive, Hamp, Bailout, Principal-Writedowns, Home Affordable Modification Program, Dennis Kucinich, Homeownership, Underwater, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Herbert Allison, Cop, Congressional Oversight Panel, Realtytrac, Negative Equity, Foreclosure Crisis, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Modification, Hma, Homeowners, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Richard Neiman, Sheila Bair, Video, Business News

Only about a third of the homeowners who have successfully completed the trial period of the Obama administration's mortgage modification program have...

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FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair Committed To Independent Consumer Agency

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Financial Reform, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Cfpa, Financial Crisis, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Financial Regulation, Business News

One of the nation's top banking regulators reiterated her support for an independent agency to protect borrowers from predatory lenders, putting her a...

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FDIC: Bank Lending Tumbles 7.5 Percent In 2009

washingtonpost.com | Binyamin Appelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Loans, Lending Crisis, Fdic, Bank Lending, Economy, Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Small Business Lending, Business News

Lending by the banking industry fell by $587 billion, or 7.5 percent, in 2009, the largest annual decline since the 1940s, the Federal Deposit Insuran...

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Bank Pay: FDIC Considers Tying Fees To Executive Compensation Levels

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Wall Street Compensation, Fiscal Policy, Business News

WASHINGTON (MARCY GORDON -- AP) -- Federal banking regulators are considering a plan to link the insurance premiums U.S. banks must pay to the degree ...

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At Last, One Government Agency Considers Cutting Mortgage Principal For Distressed Homeowners

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair indicated Thursday that she is exploring the idea of reducing the principal on as much as $45 billion in mortgages her agenc...

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FDIC's Bair Takes Her Home Off The Market

wsj.com | SIMMI AUJLA and SARA LIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair Home, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Business News

The property slump is hitting home for Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. -- one of the few regulators who saw trouble in th...

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FDIC: U.S. 'Problem' Banks Rise to 305

bloomberg.com | Margaret Chadbourn and Alison Vekshin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, 305 Problem Banks, Bailout, Community Banks, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Small Banks, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Problem Banks, Business News

May 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. "problem" banks climbed 21 percent to the highest total in 15 years in the first quarter, and provisions set aside for loan...

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Banks Earned $7.6 Billion In First Quarter Profits

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Banks, Fdic, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Bank of America, Banks, Banking Crisis, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Gmac, Citigroup, Business News

WASHINGTON — The nation's banks turned a profit in the first quarter, but the number of problem banks jumped to the highest level in 15 years an...

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Profiles in Financial Courage

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Brooksley Born, Tim Geithner, Economic Crisis, Profiles in Courage, Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Business News

The JFK Presidential Library gives a Profile in Courage Award to public officials who took a stand that took a lot of integrity and nerve.

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FDIC Bair: Banks Lost $32.1 Billion In Fourth Quarter

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators now say the nation's banks lost $32.1 billion in the final quarter of last year, even worse than the $26.2 billi...

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Stop the Financial Services "Super Czar" (Updated)

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fiddler on the Roof, Wall Street Bailout, Populism, Hank Paulson, Shelia Bair, Main Street, Regulation, Bailout, Insurance, Obama Average Americans, Washington, Kentucky, Constitution, Wall Street Bonuses, Lexington KY, National-Association-of-Insurance-Commissioners, Personal Finance, State-Insurance-Regulators, Fdic, Financial Services, Systemic-Risk, Aig, Don McNay, Representative-Government, Insurance Companies, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Wall Street Regulators, Tim Geithner, Deregulation, Car Czar, Banking Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Systemic Risk Regulator, House Financial Services Committee, Bailout Outrage, Business News

There has been talk about appointing a new "Systemic Risk Regulator." This "Super Czar" would oversee all of the financial services industry. We had a "Super Czar" last year. His name was Henry Paulson.

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FDIC: As Rock Solid As Social Security

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Social Security, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Business News

We all should be painfully aware by now that there is nothing held inside the Social Security and Medicare trust funds but a bunch of IOUs. But the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund as well?

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60 Minutes: Bank Failures And The FDIC

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Television news magazine 60 Minutes went behind-the-scenes to show viewers what happens when a bank fails. 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley fol...

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FDIC's Bair: Insolvency A Possibility

Bloomberg | Alison Vekshin | Posted 05.25.2011

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March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the deposit insurance fund could dry up amid a surge in bank failures...

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Obama To Keep Bair At FDIC

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Obama Appointments, Politics News

The Obama administration intends to keep Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair in her post, Democrat officials said Wednesday. Ms. Bai...

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Hope for Homeowners? Not So Much

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Paulson, 2008 Recession, Subprime Mortgages, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Economy, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Sheila Bair, Politics News

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, some 1.2 million homes were in foreclosure during the second quarter of 2008, and that number is expected to increase.

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Advice To Team Obama: Keep FDIC's Bair

Robert Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Citigroup Wachovia, Obama's Cabinet, Geithner Bair, Wells Fargo Wachovia, Indymac, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Chicago News

Some infighting is considered good sport, even in the Obama era. But pushing out Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair is not a wise, nor politically astute, decision.

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Housing Relief Plan Delayed By Disagreements

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, FDIC Disagreement, Federal Foreclosure-Prevention Program, Housing Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Disagreements over how to structure a federal foreclosure-prevention program are complicating and potentially delaying what is likely to...

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