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FDIC closes two banks in Florida – count hits 122
CommentsRegulators have shut down two Florida banks, boosting to 122 the number of U.S. bank failures this year as loan defaults rise.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday took over Orion Bank, based in Naples, Fla., with about $2.7 billion in assets and $2.1 billion in deposits, and Sarasota-based Century Bank, with $728 million in assets and $631 million in deposits.
Iberiabank, based in Lafayette, La., agreed to assume all of Orion Bank’s deposits and $2.4 billion of its assets, as well as Century Bank’s deposits and $706 million of its assets.
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