Joe Adler

Pressure is growing on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to finalize rules governing private-equity ownership of banks as it stares down three likely failures.

An oversight report cited the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Monday for being slow to address problems at a Georgia community bank, which failed in December.

Whether a banker wants the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to extend its blanket guarantee for non-interest-bearing deposits turns mainly on his view of the economy.

Regulators closed two community banks in Florida, and one in Oregon, Friday evening to bring the year's failure total to 72.

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Federal banking regulators Thursday urged servicers to avoid conflicts of interest when modifying loans on properties with other liens.

Regulators closed institutions in five states late Friday, bringing the year's toll to 69 and leaving the FDIC with almost $1 billion more in losses.

Almost a year since the idea was first raised by policymakers as a solution to the credit crisis, the FDIC went forward Friday with a plan to auction off toxic assets from a failed bank.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said Thursday that existing industrial loan companies should be grandfathered and not forced to convert to bank holding companies, thus breaking with the Obama administration's regulatory reform plan.

The House approved a bill Wednesday that aims to ease the burden on banking agencies' inspectors general by significantly raising the trigger for an investigation of a failed bank.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s advisory committee on economic inclusion will hold its seventh meeting Thursday since it was formed in March 2007.

The failure of yet another voluntary plan to rework mortgages is likely to renew a push for bankruptcy reform and other measures to force lenders to compromise with borrowers.

With the government's policy on private-equity deals still a work in progress, the FDIC found an alternative last week for resolving certain types of failures.

WASHINGTON — In one fell swoop, regulators seized a $2.8 billion-asset Georgia banking company and its six subsidiaries and sold them off to another bank in the state. The six failures, along with one earlier in the evening in New York State, brought the year’s total to 64. Since June 26, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has handled 24 failures, averaging almost five a week.

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Citing problems with the White House loan-modification plan, Democrats said Thursday that it was time to reconsider bringing back mortgage bankruptcy reform.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke called for more workouts to repair commercial real estate loans, like the modifications officials have urged for home loans.

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A New York hedge fund investor who had assisted in the deal for failed IndyMac Bank is claiming that proposed restrictions on private-equity investments could hurt the thrift's chances to grow.