Bank failures

English merchant bank

default of all three of Iceland's major commercial banks

finance company

former British bank

Bankia () was a Spanish financial services company that was formed in December 2010, consolidating the operations of seven regional savings banks, and was partially nationalized by the government of Spain in May 2012 due to the near-collapse of the institution. As of 2017, Bankia was the fourth largest bank in Spain, with total assets of €179.1 billion. In 2021, the bank merged with CaixaBank to create a new entity, initially preserving its original name.

Landsbanki (, ), also commonly known as Landsbankinn (, ) was one of the largest Icelandic commercial banks; it failed as part of the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis when its subsidiary sparked the Icesave dispute. On October 7, 2008, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority took control of Landsbanki and created a new bank for all the domestic operations called Nýi Landsbanki (New Landsbanki) and the bank continued to operate under the same name.

Italian bank owned by the Vatican Bank

Defunct bank founded to commit fraud and other crimes (1972–1991)

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former Icelandic bank

often attacked and corrupted bank

Portuguese banking group

company

Ireland's largest banking insolvency

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company

insolvency crisis for a bank institution, ending in failure or refinancing

1994 Venezuela Banking Crisis

Bancorex was the largest bank in Romania during the 1990s, accounting for more than a fourth of the banking market share when it was closed down in 1999. The bank failed due to non-performing loans that were related to political corruption, especially behind-the-scenes political dealings. The bank was bailed out by the Romanian state, its good assets being then merged with the more solvent Banca Comercială Română.

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Italian corruption scandal

non-fiction work by Thomas Woods

former Italian banking institution