On Friday, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation closed Marco Community Bank, headquartered in Marco Island, Florida, and the FDIC was named receiver. As receiver, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Mutual of Omaha Bank., headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, to assume all of the deposits of Marco Community Bank.
On Friday, the OTS closed La Jolla Bank, FSB, headquartered in La Jolla, California, and the FDIC was named receiver.
Treasury's most recent Transactions Report reveals a loss of $2,334,120,000 from two institutions in bankruptcy.
On Friday, the Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Financial Institutions Division closed Carson River Community Bank, headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, and the FDIC was named receiver.
The collection of foreclosure and bankruptcy-related fees in Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases has been the cause of much grief for mortgage servicers of late. Learning how to do it right on the front end of a bankruptcy is the remedy. Unfortunately, the law varies to a wide degree depending upon the state where the borrower resides. This leaves mortgage lenders and servicers with little ability to streamline activities on a nationwide basis.
In 2009, there were 140 failed banks. So far this year, 16 more banks have been seized by the FDIC. There are 702 banks currently on the FDIC's troubled banks list, and regulators and analysts predict that several hundred of those likely will fail over the next two years.
George Miller, the Chapter 7 Trustee in the HomeBanc Mortgage bankruptcy, recently filed approximately 400 preference actions against various defendants under section 547 of the Bankruptcy Code. According to a Summons filed in one of the adversary actions, the first pre-trial conference is scheduled in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on April 21, 2010. The HomeBanc bankruptcy, along with these adversary actions, are before the Honorable Kevin J.