01/13/10 Stockholm, Sweden – We last posted an unofficial list of troubled banks in October of 2009. Since then, the list has grown to 576 financial institutions with aggregate assets of over $300 billion. Banks have been both added and removed so it’s definitely worth checking out the updated list.
As we wrote in October:
“There are simply too many banking options out there to keep your hard-earned money in a bank that’s already having problems. Several recently failed banks were highlighted before going under, and the depositors could have likely avoided the hassles associated with a bank failure had they taken action sooner.”
Once again, we remind you that the list is put together based on publicly available information pulled from regulator press releases and other news sources.
More details are available in Calculated Risk’s coverage of the problem bank list, as well as in the actual unofficial list.
Rocky Vega
Rocky Vega is publisher of Agora Financial International, where he advances the growth of Agora Financial publishing enterprises outside of the US. Previously, he was publisher of The Daily Reckoning, and founding publisher of both UrbanTurf and RFID Update -- which he ran from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico -- as well as associate publisher of FierceFinance. Rocky has an honors MS from the Stockholm School of Economics and an honors BA from Harvard University, where he served on the board of directors for Let’s Go Publications, Harvard Student Agencies, and The Harvard Advocate.
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