On Friday, the OCC closed Marshall Bank , National Association, headquartered in Hallock, Minnesota, and the FDIC was named receiver.
On Friday, the Missouri Division of Finance closed Bank of Leeton, headquartered in Leeton, Missouri, and the FDIC was named receiver.
On Friday, the Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities closed Columbia River Bank, headquartered in Dalles, Oregon, and the FDIC was named receiver.
On Friday, the Washington Department of Financial Institutions closed Evergreen Bank, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and the FDIC was named receiver.
On Friday, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation closed Premier American Bank, headquartered in Miami, Florida, and the FDIC was named receiver.
On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Commerce closed St. Stephen State Bank, headquartered in St. Stephens, Minnesota, and the FDIC was named receiver. As receiver, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with First State Bank of St. Joseph, headquartered in St. Joseph, Minnesota, to assume all of the deposits of St. Stephen State Bank.
Yesterday, the FDIC announced that it had entered into a purchase and assumption agreement to assume the assets and deposits of the recently created Independent Bankers’ Bank Bridge Bank (IBBBB). IBBBB was created by the FDIC on December 18, 2009, to take over the operations of The Independent Bankers’ Bank, headquartered in Springfield, Illinois.
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
On Thursday, General Motors Corporation (GM) filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission which notably included an opinion of its auditors on its financial statements in which the auditors stated that GM’s “recurring losses from operations, stockholders’ deficit, and inabili