U.S. banks and thrifts shut 2, 267 branches in 2012, according to SNL Financial, a Charlottesville, Va.
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More than a dozen trust companies were swallowed by bigger institutions last year, according to SNL Financial.
According to SNL Financial, 35, 36, and 7 REITs cut or suspended their dividends in 2008, 2009, and 2010, respectively.
Regulators closed 92 financial institutions in 2011, down from 157 that failed in 2010 and 140 in 2009, SNL Financial said.
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They eat up 49 cents of its net interest dollar, 61 for Chase and 64 for Citi, according to SNL Financial.
The average tier one risk-based capital ratio for U.S. commercial banks at the end of 2009 was 11.43%, according to SNL Financial.
All but three of them are repeat offenders, according to SNL Financial.
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It is cold comfort to taxpayers that the first week of the New Year passed without any bank failures, as SNL Financial reported on Jan. 10.
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According to the recent data from SNL Financial LC, commercial loans as a percentage of total loans at U.S. banks dropped following the recession, when credit universally tightened.
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Single-tenant retail REITs currently trade at a median premium to NAV of 10.7 percent, compared to just 1.1 percent for all equity REITs. (source: Jason Lail at SNL Financial).
Regulators focus more often on the ratio of reserves to total loans (most banks hover below 2%), yet this does not take into account the risks that companies are shouldering, says John W. McCune, director of research for SNL's Financial Institutions Group.
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