Joe Adler

The House Energy and Commerce Committee amended a bill Thursday to create a consumer financial protection regulator, proposing a five-person commission to lead the new agency.

Although banks are not celebrating a proposed prepayment of their deposit insurance premiums, they are still embracing the plan over other alternatives.

Failures in 2009 shot past the 100-mark late Friday as regulators swooped into seven community banks in the Midwest and southeast.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank predicted Friday that a Senate drive to consolidate prudential bank supervisors into a single agency would fail.

Failures in 2009 shot past the 100-mark late Friday as regulators swooped into seven community banks in the Midwest and southeast.

The industry marked a stark milestone Friday — the 100th bank failure of 2009. It is the first time since 1992 that failures hit triple digits.

Protestors set for an ABA "Showdown in Chicago"; calls from the U.K. to chop up too-big institutions not finding purchase across the pond; Frank identifies an Acorn obsession.

After Congress wraps up debate on creating a federal agency to police consumer financial products, lawmakers will focus on what to do when systemically risky firms falter.

San Joaquin Bank in Bakersfield, Calif., became the industry's 99th failed institution of the year late Friday.

San Joaquin Bank in Bakersfield, Calif., became the industry's 99th failed institution of the year late Friday.

How would the insurance industry hold up under the scrutiny of a nationwide consumer protection regulator? If the partisan conflicts swirling around Capitol Hill continue to comingle reform issues, that question might be more than just hypothetical. Bickering over healthcare reform could be pushing Congress towards mandating a federal insurance charter.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is expected to finalize rules Tuesday that generally would end its temporary guarantee of unsecured debt Oct. 31.

The American Bankers Association offered its own take Tuesday for how the government should unwind systemically large firms.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s plan to require banks to prepay three years' worth of premiums appears designed to ensure the agency does not repeat the fallout from the last time the government took dramatic steps to rebuild federal reserves.

In the second deal using a new system for failed-bank asset sales, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said late Tuesday that four investors will receive FDIC financing to acquire a piece of Corus Bank.

Though the FDIC said it would grant distressed institutions a waiver from a plan forcing all banks to prepay three years' worth of premiums, few are expected to get one, observers said.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the government should consider limiting payments to secured creditors of failed holding companies.

Dorothy Bridges is as prepared for downturns as they come. But the head of the Washington, D.C.-based community development lender City First Bank, and one of a few black women to run a U.S. bank, faces a difficult test.

Although Platinum Community Bank was troubled before it was bought by the mortgage lender Taylor, Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Corp. last year, questions are growing about whether the parent company caused the downfall of its subsidiary — and why regulators let it happen.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Tuesday said the DIF is headed to insolvency and will stay there for at least three years. Rather than rebuild it immediately to the statutory 1.15% reserve level, the FDIC plans to meet its liquidity needs by raising $45 billion from banks' prepaying the next few years' worth of premiums.