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Below is a partial list of April FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system distress.

Fiscal austerity is coming to America in due course. The result will be an economic slowdown. It is then we will learn if the bailouts have actually worked.

The FDIC is out with its Quarterly Banking Profile for Q1 2010. And despite a rise in the FDIC's 'Problem List of Banks' to 775 in Q1 from 702 at the end of 2009 and 552 in Q3 2009, banks earned a ton of money – more than $18 billion in the…

Meredith Whitney talks to Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil in a wide-ranging interview about the banking sector. This is a good one – the best I have seen - because you get to hear Whitney's views on the sector's stocks from a fundamental and a…

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JPMorgan Chase had a blowout quarter for earnings. We're talking earnings of $3.3 billion for the quarter here.  That's up over 50% from last year's already high $2.1 billion. Does that signal an increase in lending? No. If you read…

You remember those stress tests the government conducted at the largest too-big-to-fail financial institutions. They have long since been forgotten. But, they are a relevant topic of conversation because some of the policy makers’ thinking…

Below is a partial list of January 2010 FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system…

Below is a partial list of December FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system distress.…

Below is a partial list of November FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system distress.…