This is a list of the largest U.S. bank failures with respect to total assets under management at the time of the bank failure (banks with $1.0 billion or more in assets are listed here). Assets of the banks listed here are figures provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Table
See also
- Financial crisis of 2007â€"08
- List of banks acquired or bankrupted in the United States during the 2007â€"2012 global financial crisis
- List of bank failures in the United States (2008â€"present)
- Savings and loan crisis (which resulted in many bank failures)
- Too big to fail
External links
- Top 10 provided by Getlisty.com, which used the FDIC as its primary source; dated September 29, 2008.
- BusinessPundit.com lists the top 25 largest bank failures, but it includes non-U.S. banks; it is dated May 7, 2009.
- ABC News reported the largest U.S. bank failure of 2009, so far--as of September 2009
- A list from U.S. News and World Report, dated July 15, 2008.
- Wall Street Journal list of failed U.S. banks, with FDIC asset data, sortable, last update September 25, 2009
- The 120th bank to fail in the U.S., so far in 2009, had assets of $11.2 billion.
- Another bank failure with assets exceeding 1 billion.
- Two more large bank failures late in December 2009
- Two more large bank failures January 2010
- Another big bank failure January 2010
- Regulators shut 6 banks
- FDIC Failed Bank Search site
- FDIC list, failed US banks since Oct 2000
- Regulators shut more banks; 84 failures so far in 2011
