Friday, August 21, 2009

80th bank failure of 2009

The toll of failed banks is mounting, with 80 institutions closed by regulators so far this year -- the most since 1992, at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis.

The latest came Friday with the seizures of two small banks in Georgia and one in Alabama: ebank, located in Atlanta, with $143 million in assets and $130 million in deposits; First Coweta, based in Newnan, Ga., with $167 million in assets and $155 million in deposits; and CapitalSouth Bank, based in Birmingham, Ala., with $617 million in assets and $546 million in deposits.

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