via U.S. Bank Failures Exceed 100 for Year, First Time Since 1992 – Bloomberg.com.

Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — U.S. regulators closed more than 100 banks in a single year for the first time since 1992, signaling the financial crisis hasn’t abated for lenders struggling with mounting losses tied to commercial real estate.

Seven banks — three in Florida and one each in Georgia, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois — were shut yesterday, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., pushing this year’s total to 106. That’s the most since the savings-and-loan crisis led regulators to shutter 179 institutions in 1992.

“It’s very painful, it costs a lot of money, it ruins careers,” said Gerard Cassidy, an RBC Capital Markets analyst in Portland, Maine. “But shutting down failed banks and writing off the bad loans is a necessary solution that has to be done to get the economy and the banking system back on its feet.”