WASHINGTON – Regulator shuttered three more banks Friday, making a total of 43 failures so far in 2011.
Friday’s closings followed Wednesday’s liquidation by NCUA of $3 million Hmong American FCU in St. Paul, Minn., the year’s eight credit union failure.
The bank failures were: Atlantic Southern Bank, a $742 million Macon, Ga., institution; First Georgia Banking Company, a $730 million Franklin, Ga., bank and Summit Bank, a $142 million bank in Burlington, Wash.
Liberty Bank in Salt Lake City had been "structurally unprofitable" since 2008, according to its regulators. Experts criticized the FDIC for allowing the bank's demise to play out in slow motion.
The New York-based bank says it will push its concentration of commercial real estate loans below 400% of risk-based capital over the next two years and focus more on C&I.
The San Francisco-based firm's Anchorage Digital Trusted Liquidity and Settlement network, better known as Atlas, will allow clients to settle a range of cryptocurrency transactions.
Consumer spending slowed and charge-offs rose during the first quarter, but Bread Financial said a pending late-fee rule may not be as devastating to its revenue as the Columbus, Ohio-based firm initially feared.
Artificial intelligence models are energy hogs. Climate First Bank and UBS are among the very few trying to solve this problem.
The FDIC board debated and ultimately withdrew two separate proposals to address asset managers' control over banks, but acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu said he couldn't support either and called for more research and debate about how asset managers' control over banks impacts safety and soundness.
