New Bank Failures: Week of June 29

Georgia and California contributed four of the five new bank failures last week, widening their lead over other U.S. states in the past two years.

All 70 bank failures since the beginning of 2008 are detailed on TheStreet.com's interactive bank failure map:

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Georgia leads all states with 14 bank or thrift failures during 2008 and 2009, followed by California with 11 failures, Illinois with seven, Florida with five and Nevada with four.

Georgia state regulators closed Community Bank of West Georgia of Villa Rica and Neighborhood Community Bank of Newnan on Friday. CharterBank of West Point, Ga. agreed to purchase all of Neighborhood Community's branches and deposits, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unable to find a buyer for Community Bank. There were an estimated $1.1 million in uninsured deposits at the failed institution.

California regulators shuttered MetroPacific Bank of Irvine and Mirae Bank of Los Angeles. The FDIC was named receiver in both cases and sold MetroPacific's branches and retail deposits to Sunwest Bank of Tustin, Calif. The agency sold Mirae's branches and deposits to Wilshire State Bank of Los Angeles, a subsidiary of Wilshire Bancorp (WIBC Quote).

Minnesota regulators closed Horizon Bank of Pine City and the FDIC sold all of the failed bank's deposits and branches to Stearns Bank NA of St. Cloud, Minn.

All five failed banks were included in TheStreet.com's recent list of 89 undercapitalized banks and thrifts.

Large bank holding companies that have acquired failed institutions during 2008 and 2009 include JPMorgan Chase (JPM Quote), which acquired Washington Mutual, the largest bank or thrift ever to fail in the U.S., SunTrust Banks (STI Quote), Regions Financial (RF Quote), Zions Bancorp (ZION Quote), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB Quote), US Bancorp (USB Quote) and BB&T (BBT Quote).

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