Third-Quarter Banking Report

• 9: Number of banks that failed in the third quarter (highest quarterly total in 15 years)
• 171: Number of banks on the FDIC's "Problem List" as of the third quarter (the highest since 1995, when there were 193 on the list)
• 117: Number of banks on the FDIC's "Problem List" as of the second quarter
• $115.6 billion: Assets of the "problem" institutions in the third quarter (the first time since 1994 that assets of "problem" banks have exceeded $100 billion)
• $78.3 billion: Assets of the "problem" institutions in the second quarter
• $1.7 billion: Third-quarter net income
• 94 percent: Decline in net income from the third quarter of 2007 (when net income was $27 billion)

Source: FDIC