* Georgian Bank to cost FDIC insurance fund $892 million * Bank catered to rich, featured on-staff chef WASHINGTON, Sept 25 - Regulators on Friday closed Georgian Bank in Atlanta, marking the 95th U.S. bank...
Sept 21 - The G20 group of industrial and emerging market countries meet in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh on Sept. 24-25 to review pledges they made in April to strengthen financial regulation and apply...
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 - Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who drove a crackdown on Wall Street before being brought down by scandal, said U.S. financial reform should target federal regulators as well as big...
* Global bank regulators agree on new banking rules * Banks to improve capital buffers, face debt limits * Regulators say new rules will help to avoid stresses BASEL, Switzerland, Sept 6 - Banks will...
WASHINGTON, March 5 - U.S. regulators failed to realize the massive risk American International Group Inc's credit default swaps posed and should have stepped in sooner to stop the insurer from originating the products, the...
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 - U.S. financial authorities have failed to limit systemic risks, and weaknesses in regulation need to be urgently fixed, according to a congressional report on Thursday. "Significant reforms to the U.S. regulatory...
BEIJING, Sept 3 - China should steer the yuan on a more volatile course to deter speculators betting on the currency's rise, the chief banking regulator said in published remarks. Liu Mingkang, head of the...
NEW YORK, Sept 29 - Citigroup Inc, the third largest U.S. bank, should expand its operations in China...
* Georgian Bank grew fast; catered to developers * Failure to cost FDIC insurance fund about $892 mln * One in five bank failures this year from Georgia (Recasts with details on bank failure; adds...
* Corus 4th-largest and 90th U.S. bank to fail this year * Corus Bank's $7 bln deposits sold to MB Financial Bank * MB to assume $3 bln out of total $7 bln of assets...