This is one of the areas the news media can’t cover up with media spin pretending that the economy is recovered. The number of banks closing continue at twice the speed of last year despite upbeat forecasts from government officials. Every Friday, the FDIC closes failed or insolvent banks which increase the number of bank closures.
There is another list of problem banks in the US. That list continues to grow from 702 to 775. These are chains of bank branches not just single banks. That means a lot of money is still being loss.
The failure of Nevada Security Bank is expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $80.9 million.
In addition, the FDIC and Umpqua Bank agreed to share losses on $368.2 million of Nevada Security Bank’s loans and other assets.
With 83 closures nationwide so far this year, the pace of bank failures is more than double that of 2009, which was already a brisk year for shutdowns. By this time last year, regulators had closed 40 banks. The pace has accelerated as banks’ losses mount on loans made for commercial property and development.
The number of bank failures is expected to peak this year and be slightly higher than the 140 that fell in 2009. That was the highest annual tally since 1992, at the height of the savings and loan crisis. The 2009 failures cost the insurance fund more than $30 billion. Twenty-five banks failed in 2008, the year the financial crisis struck with force, and only three succumbed in 2007.
As losses have mounted on loans made for commercial property and development, the growing bank failures have sapped billions of dollars out of the deposit insurance fund. It fell into the red last year, and its deficit stood at $20.7 billion as of March 31.
The number of banks on the FDIC’s confidential “problem” list jumped to 775 in the first quarter from 702 three months earlier, even as the industry as a whole had its best quarter in two years.
Amy Smart
Marley Shelton
China Chow
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