Yesterday, the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico closed Eurobank, headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the FDIC was appointed receiver.

On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Commerce closed State Bank of Aurora, headquartered in Aurora, Minnesota, and the FDIC was named receiver. As receiver, the FDICentered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Northern State Bank, headquartered in Ashland, Wisconsin, to assume all of the deposits of State Bank of Aurora.

On Friday, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation – Division of Banking closed George Washington Savings Bank, headquartered in Orland Park, Illinois, and the FDIC was named receiver.

Yesterday, the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled “The Condition of Financial Institutions: Examining the Failure and Seizure of an American Bank.” Participants in the hearing examined the current state of U.S.

Yesterday afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee held Part II of its series of hearings entitled “Too Big to Fail – the Role for Bankruptcy and Antitrust Law in Financial Regulation Reform.” Yesterday’s hearing focused on proposed financia

Yesterday, the California Department of Financial Institutions closed San Joaquin Bank, headquartered in Bakersfield, California, and the FDIC was named as receiver.

Today, Guaranty Bank, headquartered in Austin, Texas, was closed by theOTS and the FDIC was named as receiver.

Late Sunday night, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez approved the sale of most of Chrysler's assets to Italian Automaker Fiat S.p.A., as contemplated in the Master Transaction Agreement between the two companies.

Yesterday afternoon, the House delayed a vote on H.R. 1106, “Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009” (the “Act”) after a little over an hour of debate, amidst unexpected opposition from some Democrats.

On July 28, 2008, the FDIC published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register seeking to establish recordkeeping requirements for qualified financial contracts (“QFCs”) held by banks in “troubled” condition. The purpose of the Proposed Rule is to enable the FDIC, upon receivership, to make expeditious and well-informed decisions with respect to the management of a failed bank’s QFC portfolio.