Video: FDIC Insurance Fund In the Red

The FDIC's insurance fund posted a loss of $8.2 billion in 3Q of 2009. The agency added 136 insured banks to its list of "problem" banks.

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Video: 10/20 FDIC: U.S. Bank Failures Edge Closer to 100

10/20/09 The number of U.S. bank failures reached 99, with California-based San Joaquin Bank closed by regulators. The FDIC's insurance fund continues to dwindle.

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Video: Consumers Win as Banks, Lawmakers Vie Over Fees

Some banks are easing overdraft-protection fees as lawmakers eye stricter rules, says Gerri Detweiler, Credit.com's personal finance adviser. But don't count on the new credit-card law going into effect early, as some lawmakers hope. Andrea Coombes reports.

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Video: 08/28 List of Troubled Banks Grows

08/28/09 There are 416 troubled banks on the government's watch list, one third more than before.

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Video: Lawmakers accuse Paulson of bending to bank CEO

House lawmakers on Thursday accused former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson of bending to the demands of a major bank and keeping negotiations of a hefty bailout secret in his rush to stabilize the financial markets last year.

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Video - Money Minute: TARP, Eddie Bauer Ti02

Ten U.S. banks will finish repaying about $68 billion in bailout money Wednesday. The AP's James Limbach reports.

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Video: 06/04 Banks Try To Repay TARP

06/04/09 Banks raise money to repay the government bailout, the bailout one CEO referred to as the "scarlett letter."

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Video: Stress tests find 10 big banks need $75B more

Ten of the nation's largest financial firms need to raise $75 billion more capital to withstand losses that would come with a deeper recession, the gov't. said in a report card that found the banking system viable but still vulnerable.

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Video: Stress test results

The bank stress test results deliver clarity to investors.

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Video: Bank stress tests due out

The government is set to release the results of tests meant to find out what happens to 19 large financial firms if conditions were to worsen. AP Business Editor Mark Hamrick reports.

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Video: 05/01 Government to Delay Stress Test Results

05/01/09 The US government will delay the release of stress test results until May 7, after the market close, as banks dispute the findings.

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Video: 04/22 IMF Projects $4.1Trillion Bank Losses

04/22/09 The International Monetary Fund expects total bank losses world wide to top $4 trillion as the global recession deepens.

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Video: Geithner says banks lending less

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that difficulty in setting a value on banks' toxic assets was a continuing hindrance to their ability to lend and borrow.

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Video: Banks in stress

Banks are facing close scrutiny and uncertain outlooks despite earnings that are better than expected.

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Video: 04/13 Waiting on Earnings

04/13/09 Jennifer Lee, of Mogavero Lee & Co., says there is a hope that the markets' upward trend will continue but it will all depend on bank earnings.

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Video - Geithner: Toxic asset plan almost done

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tells Charlie Rose in an interview that the toxic asset plan will provide low-cost government financing to private investors willing to purchase the bad assets on banks' balance sheets.

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Video: Bernanke calls for regulatory overhaul

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. financial regulatory system must be overhauled to strengthen oversight of banks, mutual funds and large financial institutions whose collapse would put the entire economy in peril.

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Video: Obama: Govt. should monitor bank risks

President Barack Obama says the government should monitor the scale and scope of the risks that financial institutions take.

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Video: Obama to hold banks 'fully accountable'

In a speech to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama says the money Americans have deposited in U.S. banks is safe and the nation can rely on the continued operation of the financial system.

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Video - Obama: We need to restart lending

In an address to Congress and the nation, President Obama says his administration is doing everything possible to restart lending by financial institutions.

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