New Bank Failures: Week of Sept. 21

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- New bank failures last week included both banking subsidiaries of Irwin Financial (IFC), bringing the total number of banks and savings and loans shut down by regulators this year to 94.

All 119 bank failures since the beginning of 2008 are detailed on TheStreet.com's interactive bank failure map:

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Georgia continues to lead all states with 21 bank or thrift failures during 2008 and 2009, followed by Illinois with 14 failures, California with 13, Florida with eight and Nevada with five failures.

For the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the state incurring the greatest expense from bank failures was California, with an estimated $15.3 billion in costs to the agency's deposit insurance fund. The costliest failure was IndyMac Bank, at $10.7 billion.

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

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-- Reported by Philip van Doorn in Jupiter Fla.

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