Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

One More FDIC Bank Closing

Nov 23, 2009

On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional bank (Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida) for a cost to the FDIC of around $24 million. This brings the total number of failed banks in 2009 to 124. Total deposits of all failed banks now equal $115.5 billion for 2009 and over $349 billion since the beginning of 2008, all at an estimated cost to the FDIC of just under $54 billion. Visit Stimulus.org for more details and a full list of FDIC bank closings.

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 Total DepositsCost to the FDIC
Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida$76,700,000$23,600,000