News Source: Press TV
| 2 months ago
Corus Bancshares Inc. has been added to the list of banks that have collapsed since January under the deluge of loan defaults triggered by the credit crunch...Great Depression, compensates customers of failed banks up to $250,000 per account, and the...
News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 2 months ago
U .S. regulators Friday closed Chicago-based lender Corus Bank and sold its deposits to MB Financial Bank, marking the 90th U.S. bank to fail this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said MB will assume all of the deposits of Corus Bank and...
News Source: Washington Post
| 2 months ago
The bank also slashed its mortgage lending standards, accepting lower credit scores and smaller down payments, and making most loans without verifying incomes or assets...The goal, according to the report, was to make the family-owned company...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 2 months ago
The bank that was the most aggressive financer of condominium construction loans during the real estate boom was closed by federal regulators Friday night, with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation estimating that the bank’s $4 billion in...
News Source: The Examiner
| 2 months ago
Corus made construction loans nationwide, specializing in condominium, office and hotel projects. The bank has staggered for weeks under the weight of bad real estate loans and its collapse had been anticipated. Already in February, the bank said...
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| 2 months ago
Staff Reporter Federal authorities Friday shuttered Chicago-based Corus Bank, making it the biggest financial institution in the area to succumb to the financial crisis. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Corus� 11 offices at the close of...