Regulators close banks in Fla., Ga., Ore., Wash. (AP)

AP - Regulators on Friday shut down two Georgia banks and one each in Florida and Arizona, bringing to 41 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year following the 140 that fell in 2009 to mounting loan defaults and the recession.

Regulators have shut down banks in Florida and Georgia, lifting to 85 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday took over Peninsula Bank, based in Englewood, Fla., with $644.3 million in assets and $580.1 million in deposits.

AP - Regulators on Friday shut down three banks in Florida, two in South Carolina and one in Michigan, bringing to 96 the number of U.S. banks to succumb this year to the recession and mounting loan defaults.

Regulators on Friday shut down three banks in Florida, two in South Carolina and one in Michigan, bringing to 96 the number of U.S. banks to succumb this year to the recession and mounting loan defaults.

Regulators on Friday shut down two banks in Florida and one in Oregon, bringing to 72 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year under the weight of the weak economy and rising loan losses.

The ongoing economic volatility took its toll on a few more banks last week. On Friday, five more were shuttered by U.S. regulators. These five banks were based in Florida, Georgia, Oregon and Washington.

[AP] - Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, Georgia and Michigan, a total of five closures that lifted the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 39.

Regulators on Friday shut down eight banks -- three in Florida, two in California, and one each in Massachusetts, Michigan and Washington -- putting the number of U.S. bank failures this year at 50.