The pace at which banks are failing in the United States continues to be quite scary. On Friday, the 35th and 36th banks of 2009 were seized by federal regulators. Both of the banks were in the state of Illinois. Yesterday’s bank failure was BankUnited in Florida.
The good news is that these two banks were relatively small. The FDIC will be out approximately $275 million following the failure of Citizen National Bank and Strategic Capital Bank. To compare, BankUnited reportedly will cost the FDIC nearly $5 billion.
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The number of failed banks in the United States in 2009 rose once again when it was announced that BankUnited has been taken over by federal regulators. BankUnited represents the 34th bank to fail in 2009 that was protected by the FDIC.
In total loses by the FDIC, this was the second largest bank failure of the year. Only IndyMac Bank of California has totaled a larger loss. In all, reported indicate that BankUnited will cost the FDIC nearly $5 billion. IndyMac Bank’s failure had a price tag of more than $10 billion.
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