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Guest Columnist

Sep. 9, 2009

'Private Equity' - Still Scary Words at the FDIC

The FDIC and the other federal banking regulators consistently express serious concerns about private-equity investments in banks and bank holding companies, often because of perceived "opaqueness" in the organization and governance of private-equity investment structures.

By HAROLD P. REICHWALD

The FDIC and the other federal banking regulators consistently express serious concerns about private-equity investments in banks and bank holding companies, often because of perceived "opaqueness" in the organization and governance of private-equity investment structures. With the August 26 adoption of the FDIC Statement of Policy, or SOP, on private capital investments in failed banks, the FDIC itself has ventured into its own ...

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