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Southern Lender Becomes Year's Biggest Bank Failure

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 15, 2009 5:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – Alabama's Colonial Bank has collapsed in the sixth-biggest bank failure in American history, the Wall Street Journal reports. The lender, which had assets of $25 billion and 346 branches in five southern states, was an aggressive mortgage lender in overheated markets like Florida, and its...   Read full story »

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