IndyMac

FDIC Information: On July 11, 2008, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., Pasadena, CA was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Conservator.

All non-brokered insured deposit accounts have been transferred to IndyMac Federal Bank, F.S.B., Pasadena, CA ("assuming institution") a new FDIC-insured Federal Mutual Savings Bank. No advance notice is given to the public when a financial institution is closed.

The FDIC has assembled useful information regarding your relationship with this institution. Besides a checking account, you may have Certificates of Deposit, a business checking account, a Social Security direct deposit, and other relationships with the institution.

FDIC Bank Closing Information for IndyMac

The IndyMac websites are expected to be available Monday, July 14, 2008.

If the balance in your account(s) (this includes any accounts in which you have an ownership) is less than $100,000, no action is required on your part at this time. Your entire insured account(s) will be transferred to IndyMac Federal Bank and will be available for business as usual during regular business hours.

http://www.indymacbank.com/

The bank is the largest regulated thrift to fail and the second largest financial institution to close in U.S. history, regulators said.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080712/indymac.html

The collapse is expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. between $4 billion and $8 billion, potentially wiping out more than 10% of the FDIC's $53 billion deposit-insurance fund.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121581435073947103.html?mod=...

Der Zusammenbruch des Instituts ist der größte Banken-Crash in den USA seit dem Kollaps der Continental Illinois National Bank im Jahr 1984
http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/finanzdienstleister/:Kreditkri...