On Friday, the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation closed Citizens State Bank, headquartered in New Baltimore, Michigan, and the FDIC was named as receiver.

The European Commission (EC) yesterday approved the restructuring plan of Northern Rock plc. The plan will split the company into two separate companies. The new Northern Rock plc will consist of a new savings and mortgage bank that will hold and service all customer savings accounts and some existing mortgage accounts.

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Banking, closed InBank, headquartered in Oak Forest, Illinois, and the FDIC was named as receiver. The FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with MB Financial Bank, N.A., headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, to assume all the deposits of InBank except certain brokered deposits.

Yesterday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez approved a motion by Chrysler LLC requesting that GMAC LLC become the preferred lender for its dealer network, and be permitted to provide wholesale, retail and other product-related financing for Chrysler dealers and customers to purchase vehicles.

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.

On Friday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed The First National Bank of Barnesville, headquartered in Barnesville, Georgia, and appointed the FDIC as receiver.

Yesterday, the United Kingdom’s Commercial Secretary to the Treasury launched a consultation on a new special-resolution regime, Special administration regime for investment firms, to strengthen the government’s ability to handle future insolvencies of failing investment banks to minimize cost and disruption of the overall national financial system.

On Friday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed Williamsburg First National Bank, headquartered in Kingstree, South Carolina, and appointed the FDIC as receiver for the bank.

Today, the Board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took the following actions:

Friday, the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions closed Towne Bank of Arizona, headquartered in Mesa, Arizona, and the FDIC was appointed receiver.