troubled banks
| 10:00PM 2/23/2011
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The number of federally insured banks at risk of failing rose to 884 -- nearly 12% -- in the last quarter of 2010, reaching the highest level in 18 years.
| 8:00AM 12/23/2010
Two recent acquisitions by Canadian banks likely foretell that M&A activity among U.S. banks will only accelerate next year. Smaller banks that survived the financial crisis, but have few growth opportunities, are now attractive takeover targets.
| 4:00PM 11/24/2009
It's no secret that the financial sector is struggling. Even so, new figures from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s so-called secret list of troubled banks show an industry in increasing distress. The number of banks on the regulator's confidential watch list increased by 33% in the third...
| 1:30PM 5/27/2009
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says its roster of "problem" financial institutions grew to include 305 banks and thrifts in the first three months of this year, a 21 percent jump from the final quarter of 2008 and the most since 1994.
Banks that make the list aren't doomed, but they face...
| 9:30AM 5/01/2009
Lately, it seems that as each week comes to a close, we hear about yet another bank failure. Thirty two banks have failed so far this year, already surpassing the total tally for 2008's bank failures. And there doesn't seem to be a slowdown in sight. Earlier this year, the Federal Deposit Insurance...