On Friday, the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions closed Desert Hills Bank, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, and the FDIC was named receiver. As receiver, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with New York Community Bancorp, headquartered in Westbury, NY to assume all of the deposits of Desert Hills Bank.
On Friday, OTS closed Waterfield Bank, headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and appointed the FDIC as receiver. As receiver, the FDIC created Waterfield Bank, FA, a new depository institution chartered by the OTS and insured by the FDIC, to take over the operations of Waterfield Bank. The new institution will remain open until April 5, 2010, “to allow depositors access to their insured funds and time to move accounts to other insured institutions.”
On Friday, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation closed Premier American Bank, headquartered in Miami, Florida, and the FDIC was named receiver.
Today, the U.K. Treasury and Northern Rock plc separatelyannounced that the restructuring of Northern Rock will take place on January 1, 2010 (Transfer Date).
Yesterday, the OCC closed Flagship National Bank, headquartered in Bradenton, Florida, and the FDIC was named as receiver.
On Friday, the OTS closed Bradford Bank, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and named the FDIC as receiver.
On April 10, 2009, the North Carolina Office of Commissioner of Banks closed Cape Fear Bank, headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the FDIC was named as receiver.
On Tuesday, the FDIC held the first in a series of proposed roundtable discussions on the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which is intended to bring transparency to the rulemaking process. Government officials, industry executives, academics and investors were invited to participate in the discussion.
On Friday, the Kansas Office of the State Bank Commissioner closed Thunder Bank, headquartered in Sylvan Grove, Kansas, and appointed the FDIC as receiver for the bank. As receiver, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Bennington State Bank, headquartered in Salina, Kansas, to assume all of the deposits of Thunder Bank.