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Monday, March 16, 2009

Your bank has failed: What happens next?

What happens if your bank fails? Shouldn't we know? 60 Minutes followed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to a bank that had just failed to see what happens.

A lot of people are worried about their banks these days. While devastated giants like Citigroup get bailed out again and again and again, many smaller banks are failing. The federal agency that takes over unsound banks is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - the same people who guarantee depositors won't lose their money.

Most every Friday night now the FDIC seizes several banks. You haven't seen these takeovers happening because they're done secretly at night to make sure there's no needless panic by depositors. READ OR WATCH THE REST 

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