Since the 1970s, over 90
banks in the United States with billion or more in assets have
failed. The list below is based on
asset
In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value. Assets represent value of ownership that can b ...
s at the time of failure of banks insured by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a State-owned enterprises of the United States, United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks. The FDIC was cr ...
.
[https://archive.fdic.gov/view/fdic/1489]
See also
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List of bank failures in the United States (2008–present)
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List of banks acquired or bankrupted in the United States during the 2008 financial crisis
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Too big to fail
"Too big to fail" (TBTF) is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected with an economy that their failure would be disastrous to the greater e ...
References
External links
Failed banks since 2000*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Largest U.S. Bank Failures, List Of
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Failures
Bank failures
United States economic history-related lists