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 ...

On Friday, Oct. 18, the First National Bank of Lindsay in south central Oklahoma, was reported closed by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Comptroller of the Currency over “false and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The current banking crisis is a separate, much smaller beast than in 2008. In 2008, 25 banks failed, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s database. Included in that count is ...

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 ...

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 ...

As banks and regulators scurry to respond to the most perilous industry conditions since the 2007-08 financial crisis, experts say one persistent issue needs attention: risk oversight that’s ...