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Debate Room: The FDIC vs. the Fed

Dec 30, 2009 3:47 PM

Excerpt Opinions and conclusions expressed in the BusinessWeek Debate Room do not necessarily reflect the views of Bloomberg BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek.com. For many reasons, the FDIC is bett...

FDIC May Require Underwriter, Rater Pay Tied to Asset-Backed Bond Issues

Nov 19, 2009 10:24 PM

Excerpt Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may force underwriters and credit raters of asset-backed debt to tie their compensation to the performance of the securities, ...

FDIC Forecasts More Bad Loans and Bank Failures

Oct 16, 2009 5:45 AM

Excerpt The FDIC finally admits to C&D and CRE loan problems. I have been warning about overexposures to C&D and CRE loans posing the biggest threat to community and regional banks since April ...

FDIC looks for ways to replenish fund

Sep 29, 2009 9:15 AM

Excerpt Banking regulators say they expect bank failures to cost the FDIC $100 billion over the next four years. Steve Henn reports the FDIC is doing everything it can to avoid another taxpayer...

Bloomberg Further Hammers FDIC Credibility

Sep 24, 2009 7:56 AM

Excerpt “There’s a philosophical question about the Treasury credit line, whether that is there for losses that we know we will have, or whether it’s there for unexpected emergencies,” Bair sai...

Fort Worth’s Residential Credit is first purchaser of FDIC toxic assets

Sep 17, 2009 3:42 PM

Officials at Residential Credit Solutions Inc. of Fort Worth announced Sept. 16 the company was the winning bidder in a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. program that encourages private purchases of ...

How Safe Are FDIC-Insured Bank Accounts?

Aug 24, 2009 9:55 PM

When a series of banks started failing last year, federal officials said consumers’ money was safe and guaranteed, as long as their financial institution was insured by the Federal Deposit Insuranc...

US banking sector will see further collapses

Aug 24, 2009 1:53 PM

Excerpt Mr Bove, of Rochdale Securities, who was ranked first in capital markets share selection at the StarMine analyst awards in 2008, argues that another 150 to 200 US banks are set to fail ...

Demystifying the Bank Closure Process

Aug 21, 2009 7:37 AM

Excerpt Almost like clockwork, the government announces nearly every Friday the collapse of another bank -- or three, or five -- amid the worst banking crisis since the Savings & Loan crisis n...

FDIC won't comment on Colonial's future

Aug 14, 2009 2:49 AM

Excerpt There is still no word about the ultimate future of Colonial Bank and what the Alabama Banking Board may have decided during a Monday meeting. But if Colonial should fail, it will be up...

Investment markets outlook

Aug 4, 2009 11:51 PM

Excerpt And views on the sustainability of company earnings. The SA stockmarket (as measured by the FTSE/ JSE All Share Index -"ALSI") returned 8.6% in the June quarter after posting a negative...

Neil Hrab: U.S. bank closure tally reaches 64 ... and counting

Jul 31, 2009 1:02 PM

Excerpt Late last year, Full Comment took a look at a distressing phenomenon known as “FDIC Friday”. FDIC Friday refers to how, with gloomy regularity, the U.S. Federal Deposit and Insurance...

Ameritrade Reports 17% Slump in Profit on Rates Drop (Update1)

Jul 21, 2009 12:27 PM

July 21 (Bloomberg) -- TD Ameritrade Holding Corp ., the third-largest retail brokerage by client assets, said quarterly profit fell 17 percent as lower interest rates eroded revenue.

FDIC’s Bair Pushes for Greater Systemic Risk Powers (Update1)

Jun 19, 2009 3:21 PM

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said a proposed council to monitor firms for systemic risk needs greater powers, and suggested she will lobby Congress to...