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Bank Failure Tally Up to 14 after Closing of Wisconsin Bank

in Government June 3, 2013 847 Views

Wisconsin saw its first bank collapse of 2013 over the weekend.

The ""Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions"":http://www.wdfi.org/ closed Banks of Wisconsin (Kenosha), ""FDIC"":http://fdic.gov/ announced Friday. As receiver, the agency entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with ""North Shore Bank, FSB"":http://www.northshorebank.com/ (Brookfield, Wisconsin) to assume all of Banks of Wisconsin's $127.6 million in deposits and $97.4 million in assets. The remaining assets (approximately $36.6 million) will be retained by FDIC for later disposition.

FDIC estimates the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund will be $26.3 million.

Banks of Wisconsin was the 14th FDIC-insured institution to fall so far this year. As of this time last year, 23 insured banks had collapsed.

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