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Shahien Nasiripour

In Crazy New Landscape For Banks, Taxpayers Are The Big Losers

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Fdic, Bank Failures, Institutional Risk Analytics, Christopher Whalen, Bailout, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Banks, Financial Crisis, Chris Whalen, Institutional-Risk-Analytics, Sheila Bair, Business News

This story has been updated Fifty banks collapsed during the third quarter of 2009, while more than one in 15 are on the verge of failure -- the high...

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FDIC Insurance Fund Goes Into The Red; Number Of Problem Banks Rises To Highest Level In 16 Years

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Failure, Fdic, Bank Lending, FDIC DIF, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Bank Profits, FDIC Insurance Fund, Problem Banks, Business News

WASHINGTON — The apparent end of the recession and stabilizing financial markets have not cured the banking industry, as souring and past-due lo...

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FDIC Chief Sheila Bair: Big Banks Still Aren't Lending Enough

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Bank Lending, Credit Markets, Bailout, Lending, Loans, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Banks, Sheila Bair, Tarp, Business News

NEW YORK — The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday she's "very worried" that the nation's biggest banks aren't lending enou...

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FDIC's Bair On Bank's Opposing Reform: "That Makes Me Angry"

Reuters | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Banks, Sheila Bair. Bair Kansas State University Speech, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Fiscal Policy, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. bank regulator struck out against the portions of the financial industry that are fighting reforms, saying they are ...

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Barney Frank Disagrees With Obama On Fund, May Face Fight With Some Financial Firms

bloomberg.com | Alison Vekshin | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Treasury Department, Shareholders, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Barney Frank, Bloomberg Television, Aig, Obama Administration, Regulate Financial Firms, Financial Services Roundtable, Goldman Sachs, U.S. House Financial Services Committee, Financial Firms, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Timothy Geithner, Sheila Bair, Political Capital With Al Hunt, Scott Talbott, Politics News

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Barney Frank, chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, reversed course on paying to unwind failed financial fi...

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Showdown In Chicago: Sheila Bair Speaks To Protesters, Backs Consumer Protection Agency (VIDEO)

Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Protests, Fdic, Showdown in Chicago, Aba, Seiu, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Afl-Cio, National People's Action, Slideshow, Sheila Bair, American Bankers Association, Business News

ORIGINAL POST (Scroll down for a slideshow of today's protests): Before she appeared at the American Bankers Association annual convention today, Fe...

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Small Banks Failing As Big Banks Grow Stronger

nytimes.com | ERIC DASH | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Banks Fail, Bank Failures, Too Big to Fail, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Bailout, Bank Bailout, Small Banks, Business News

A year after Washington rescued the banks considered too big to fail, the ones deemed too small to save are approaching a grim milestone: the 100th ba...

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Citigroup's Positive Management Review Questioned By FDIC

Reuters | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Citigroup, Sheila Bair, Vikram Pandit, Citibank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Business News

(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is questioning the positive conclusions given to Citigroup Inc's management team in a government-m...

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Sheila Bair, FDIC Chief: "Too Big To Fail" Must End For All

nytimes.com | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Too Big Too Fail, Fdic, Economy Recession, Sheila Bair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Business News

The head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said on Sunday that she wanted to end the "too big to fail" doctrine and shrink the shadow bankin...

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FDIC's Seizure Of Georgian Bank: Are Banks Flying Blind?

bloomberg.com | Jonathan Weil | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Bank Failures, Banks, Bank Balance Sheets, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Georgian Bank, Sheila Bair, Business News

How many other seemingly healthy multibillion-dollar community banks are out there waiting to implode? That's impossible to know, which is what's so u...

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FDIC Expected To Ask Banks For $36B In Prepaid Insurance Fees

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Fdic, Liquidity, Economy, Liquid, Prepaid Bank Insurance, Recession, Bailout, Insurance, Finance, Failed Banks, Treasury, Banks, Fees, Sheila Bair, Healthy Banks, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may take the unprecedented step of ordering banks to prepay about $36 billion in premiums to rep...

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Small Bank Bailouts Under Consideration

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Fdic, Bailout, Small Banks, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Business News

WASHINGTON — Treasury officials and regulators are weighing a fresh round of bailouts for banks that were deemed too risky to qualify for earlie...

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FDIC Sells Failed Bank's Toxic Loans To Private Investor

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Public-Private Investment Program, Fdic, Residential Credit Solutions, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Ppip, Franklin Bank, Business News

WASHINGTON - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Wednesday named the first winning bidder under a test of the government's program to back private ...

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Sheila Bair Goes on the Attack, Again

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Super-Regulator, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Tim Geithner, Economy, Banking, Ben Bernanke, Sheila Bair, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Wouldn't you have wanted to be at Treasury on Tuesday when Geithner read FDIC head Sheila Bair's Times op-ed, in which she continues to wage war against the Treasury's plan for a super-regulator?

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Cash-Strapped FDIC Turns To Private Equity Firms To Buy Struggling Banks

nytimes.com | ERIC DASH | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Failure, Fdic, Guarnty Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Bank, Sheila Bair, Private Equity, Business News

Faced with a growing wave of bank failures, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is taking extraordinary steps to attract buyers for troubled ins...

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Is The FDIC Broke? Recent Bank Failures Tax Reserves

dailykos.com | By Gjohnsit | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Bank Failures, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Accounting Reform, Guaranty Bank, Colonial Bank, Business News

When Colonial Bank failed on Friday, the 77th bank to fail this year, very few people noted that it was the largest bank failure of 2009. Even fewer p...

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Banks Added 10,000 Branches During Boom, But Left Inner Cities Behind

AP | FRANK BASS and LINDA STEWART BALL | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank, Bank Reform, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, American Bankers Association, Business News

DALLAS — Banks expanded at a breathtaking pace over the past five years, adding more than 10,000 full-service branches, but barely 1 in 10 were ...

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3 More Banks Fail As FDIC Mulls Rules For Private Equity Sales

AP | Stephen Manning and David Pitt, AP Business Writers | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: First State Bank, Private Equity Council, Private Equity, Sheila Bair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Rock River Bank, John Warner Bank, Illinois Bank Closures, Illinois Bank Failures, Illinois Banks, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three Illinois banks were shuttered Thursday as government regulators proposed new rules for private equity firms seeking to take o...

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FDIC's Bair Takes Her Home Off The Market

wsj.com | SIMMI AUJLA and SARA LIN | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

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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Regulators Missed Warning Signs At Smaller Banks

usatoday.com | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Office of Thrift Supervision, Fdic, ANB Bank, Mid-Sized-Banks, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Business News

When ANB Bank of Arkansas failed last year, it was easy to blame executives whose pursuit of high-adrenaline growth led to the bank's demise. But now ...

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FDIC Pushes Citigroup To Change Management: WSJ

AP | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, Vikram Pandit, Citigroup, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Citigroup Board, Richard Parsons, Business News

NEW YORK — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is reportedly pressing for a management shake-up at embattled bank Citigroup Inc., putting CEO Vi...

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Bad Bank Loans Hit Record High

nytimes.com | FLOYD NORRIS | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Bank Loans, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Banking Regulation, Banking Crisis, Bank Bailout, Business News

Overall loan quality at American banks is the worst in at least a quarter century, and the quality of loans is deteriorating at the fastest pace ever,...

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

bloomberg.com | Margaret Chadbourn and Alison Vekshin | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

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 06.27.2009 | Business

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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FDIC May Lend To Investors, Without GIving Taxpayers A Stake

Bloomberg | Rebecca Christie | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Toxic Assets, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Business News

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may offer investors financing to buy distressed U.S. bank assets without requiring them to...

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