Sunday, August 16, 2009

Colonial Bank Fails


And as a stock holder, I can only say, "Awww, crap!"

[Excerpt]

Feds shut Colonial BancGroup in largest failure of 2009

Real estate lender Colonial BancGroup Inc. has been shut down by federal officials in the biggest U.S. bank failure this year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which was appointed receiver of the Montgomery, Ala.-based Colonial and its about $25 billion in assets, said the failed bank's 346 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Texas will reopen at the normal times starting on Saturday as offices of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T. . .

Read more at: Raw Story








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