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There remains an issue about what to do with troubled banks, and the regulations over who can own banks and at what percentages only add more questions rather than answers.  FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair and other regulators are still trying to craft a formal policy on how to deal with private equity and the ownership [...]

U.S. banks backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. saw profits for the first three months of 2009 fall 61% from a year earlier as many lenders continue to suffer from the real estate slump and recession, a report compiled by the regulator says.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) have so far not lived up to the notion of being “bank holding companies.”  These companies have not just been poor acquirers of banks, because for all practical purposes they have been no acquirers of banks.  The companies made the jump from investment banking [...]

Champaign, Ill.-based Strategic Capital Bank is closed by regulators, marking the 35th bank failure of 2009, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

BankUnited Financial Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

We highlight JP Morgan Chase & Co., Inc. (JPM), BankUnited Financial Corp. (BKUNA), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC). As the FDIC has had to step in to take over more and more insolvent banks, the fund has dwindled to dangerously low levels. At the same time, the number of problem banks continues to grow at a rapid pace. At the end of the first quarter there were 305 "problem institutions" with a total of $220.0 billion in assets, up from 252 institutions and $159.4 billion in assets at the end of 2008. At the end of the quarter, the Deposit[More...]

The Government never ceases to amaze me... BankUnited, a newly chartered federal savings bank, acquired the banking operations, including all of the nonbrokered deposits, of BankUnited, FSB, Coral Gables, Florida, in a transaction facilitated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). As a result of this transaction, BankUnited, FSB, offices and branches will be operated as BankUnited offices and branches. For those who don't follow The Market Ticker closely (or who are new to it and the forum) Tickerforum and Market Ticker readers know that I and many[More...]