Without this facility banks with real estate loan overexposures are lined up for failure on Bank Failure Friday.
Another component of a bank failure is that another bank is taking over the assets of a failed bank.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne blamed the government for what he called a "catastrophic failure of bank regulation", contributing to the "longest and deepest recession" since the 1930s.
There was only one bank failure last Friday, which was Nevada Security Bank ( OTC:TBHS) of Reno, Nevada.
The world banking system is inherently fragile because the failure of one bank leads to contagion that can cause the failure of other banks and of the system itself.
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These are banks that are being used by the FDIC as consolidators following Bank Failure Friday.
The FDIC incorrectly sees that bank failure will soon peak and that the DIF deficit is manageable.
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The U.S. should adopt the Cypriot method of bank failure resolution, as a step in the right direction.
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Some would say they've already failed: but in these fraught times, that definition of bank failure now looks pretty academic.
Bank Failure Friday: The FDIC closed six more community banks last Friday.
"This is pretty new territory for a lot of folks, a bank failure, " said planner Ralph Lunt of Avon, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.
Members of the Dalton gang, laid out in caskets after the deadly failure of their bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas, still look oddly thrilling.
She could also borrow bridge financing from the Treasury to cover for the time lapse between a bank failure and the sale of its assets.
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Any money the FDIC uses for a bank failure is charged against the current federal budget, regardless of whether money will be recovered down the road.
Many banks that need additional capital are too far gone and should be closed on Bank Failure Friday, rather than being propped up by tax payer funds.
The biggest bank failure in U.S. history was the 1984 collapse of Continental Illinois, a crisis over which the term "too big to fail" was initially coined.
And from it we can see very clearly why no ones gone to jail, why no one has even been prosecuted over the largest UK bank failure ever.
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"I lost the throttle on turn nine which I was told was due to a failure on one bank of the control system, " Coulthard said when his race was over.
When bank customers lined up at California's Indymac Bank this week, we were reminded that bank failure is on the rise this year - five so far, and more are expected.
That should sharply reduce the risk of bank failure.
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The overall network of community banks needs help and that help should be a program designed to find incentives for private capital to invest in banks that are deemed borderline Bank Failure Friday victims.
Following the collapse of a third of all American banks in 1930-33, the government set up an insurance scheme under which it guaranteed to repay depositors, up to a certain limit, in the event of bank failure.
"Some have come to believe that the FDIC should not spend any time worrying about or planning for a large bank failure because these banks have become so well diversified and sophisticated in their risk management, " said FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair in a speech to the Exchequer Club in Washington, D.
It was (and is), for example, a chronic failure of international bank regulation that the debt of Italy, Spain, Germany and so on was classified by financial regulators as completely safe and without risk after monetary union - which gave an unhealthy incentive to banks to lend to these governments (in the jargon, the government bonds of these countries were given a zero risk-weighting).
Witness last months failure of Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, formerly one of Japans ten giant city (commercial) banks.
The Financial Services Authority report into the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland has finally been released.
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