California bank failure will cost FDIC $1.4 billion
By MarketWatch


SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Five more banks, including a California-based institution that reportedly received federal bailout funds in 2008, were closed Friday by regulators, bringing the 2009 total to 120 failed banks.

The latest banks to be taken over were United Security Bank of Sparta, Ga.; Home Federal Savings Bank of Detroit; United Commercial Bank of San Francisco; Gateway Bank of St. Louis and Prosperan Bank of Oakdale, Minn., according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

United Commercial, which had branches across the U.S. and also in Hong Kong and Shanghai, focused on the Chinese-American market in the U.S. and had obtained a very difficult to get banking license in China, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The Times said United Commercial received $299 million in federal bailout funds last year.

The FDIC estimated United Commercial's failure would cost its insurance deposit fund $1.4 billion. ..........(more)

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