A bank failure is the closure of a bank by a regulator when it doesn’t have enough money to operate. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The tally of bank failures easily broke past the No. 100 milestone on Friday night, with regulators announcing the year's 106th closure. That's more than four times the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bills were filed, hearings were planned and blame was cast as Congress reacted this past week to the abrupt failure of two banks. A look at what lawmakers are saying and ...

Take this story's artwork. It features a picture of depositors crowded outside the American Union Bank in New York after the institution failed on June 30, 1931. During the Great Depression, roughly 9 ...

Sheila Bair is the former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Charles Goodhart is Emeritus Professor in the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics.

What Is the Largest Bank Failure? The 2008 collapse of Washington Mutual was the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Washington Mutual held $307 billion in assets when it failed. Like many other ...

A bar chart of U.S. bank failures since 2001, showing that First Republic Bank’s collapse was the second-biggest in U.S. history in terms of assets. The three banks that failed this year were ...

US financial regulators on Tuesday signed off on new rules to prepare large and regional banks in the case of failure. Officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve and ...

This deal — in which a bigger bank absorbs a struggling one — is typical during a crisis. What is less typical is the magnitude of this year’s failures. Combined, First Republic, Silicon ...