Another bank bites the dust......

[marmar]

from Bloomberg:



Silver State of Nevada Is 11th Bank Failure This Year (Update2)

By Alison Vekshin and Ari Levy

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Silver State Bank of Henderson, Nevada was closed by U.S. regulators today, the 11th bank to collapse this year amid a surge in soured real-estate loans stemming from the worst housing slump since the Depression.

Silver State, with $2 billion in assets and $1.7 billion in deposits, was shut by the Nevada Financial Institutions Division and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the FDIC said today in a statement. Nevada State Bank in Las Vegas will assume the deposits from Silver State, which was run by Silver State Bancorp. The failed bank's offices will open Sept. 8 as branches of Nevada State and National Bank of Arizona, the FDIC said.

``Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship,'' the FDIC said.

Banks are being closed at the fastest pace in 14 years and regulators have publicly ordered dozens of institutions to shore up capital or restrict their business. California lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc., which had $32 billion in assets, was closed July 11 in the third-largest bank seizure, contributing to a 14 percent drop in the U.S. deposit insurance fund that had $45.2 billion at the end of the second quarter.

In July, Silver State announced the resignation of Andrew McCain as a director of the bank. McCain, who had served on the audit committee and was a director for five months, is the son of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. A call to the campaign's press line wasn't immediately returned. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adweqGJO2lNc&refer=home

[stray cat]

1. Andrew McCain bank ie he was a bank director

[merh]

2. As in son of John ?

.

[stillcool]

4. OMG! You're right...

holy moley.

[Rockholm]

3. Andrew McCain resigned in July.

He knew what was coming. Another McCain. Another bank failure.

[annabanana]

5. This is interesting because of the McCain connection... but it pales

in comparison to the takeover of Freddie & Fannie!

[hatrack]

6. Once again, a bank failure announced late on a Friday afternoon . . .

It's almost as if there were a pattern here!!!!