James Rickards Warns : Banks Are Closing in America – Venezuela is The Future of The United States | Threat Of Dollar Collapse 2017!

Monday, March 27, 2017
By Paul Martin

Amber William
MyDailyInformer.com
March 26, 2017

A bank failure is the closing of a bank by a federal or state banking regulatory agency. The FDIC is named as Receiver for a bank’s assets when its capital levels are too low, or it cannot meet obligations the next day.After a bank’s assets are placed into Receivership, the FDIC acts in two capacities—first, it pays insurance to the depositors, up to the deposit insurance limit, for assets not sold to another bank. Second, as the receiver of the failed bank, it assumes the task of selling and collecting the assets of the failed bank and settling its debts, including claims for deposits in excess of the insured limit. The FDIC insures up to $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, as a result of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which raised the limit from $100,000.

The receivership of Washington Mutual Bank by federal regulators on September 26, 2008, was the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Regulators simultaneously brokered the sale of most of WaMu’s assets to JPMorgan Chase, which planned to write down the value of Washington Mutual’s loans at least $31 billion.

Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan shut 389 branches since the third quarter of last year.

Bank of America, which had over 6,000 branches before the financial crisis has now shrank to 4,629, according to third quarter accounts. The bank has cut 112 financial centers from last year.

Paul Donofrio, CFO of Bank of America, said the closing of branches was part of a “shift to self-served digital channels, mobile, online, and ATM” in a 3Q earnings call transcript.

According to the 3Q earnings report, the bank has 21 million mobile banking active users and 18% of deposit transactions are completed through mobile devices. “That’s better for customers, it’s also better for our shareholders,” said Donofrio. “It’s one-tenth the cost of walking into a branch.”

“So it’s a quality versus quantity and making sure we understand,” said CEO Brian Monihyan on the earnings call. “I’d say we went from seven million visits probably four to five years ago to six to five. But those five are of a higher quality, and we think that’s important.”

Wells Fargo announced plans on Friday to shut down more than 400 bank branches by the end of 2018. That’s on top of the 84 locations it pulled the plug on in 2016.

The acceleration of branch closures at Wells Fargo is a reflection of Americans’ preference for online and mobile banking these days. Unlike Wells Fargo, its chief rivals Bank of America (BAC) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) have been a lot more aggressive in shutting branches in recent years.

A consent order is issued by the FDIC when regulators determine that a bank is operating in an “unsafe or unsound” manner. A bank signing a consent order is required to take corrective actions for the deficiencies cited in the consent order. If a bank is able to cure the deficiencies cited in the consent order, the FDIC can terminate the order.

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