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Subject: SunTrust

SunTrust Banks, Inc. is an American bank holding company. The largest subsidiary is SunTrust Bank. It had $171.5 billion in assets as of June 30, 2008. SunTrust Bank’s most direct corporate parent was established in 1891 in Atlanta, Georgia, where its headquarters remain.
SunTrust operates approximately 1,700 bank branches across Southern states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. (Wikipedia Feb 2010)

Good and bad banks

Bank stress tests: aftermath and consequences

tarred and feathered

In May 2009, the Obama administration divided some of America’s largest banks into ‘good banks’ and ‘bad banks’.

This broke a long-standing practice of protecting the reputation of the US banking system. The Obama government seized TARP funds as an instrument of political power.

Banks, large and small, are now eager to escape the trap of taking TARP funds, which will require them to raise $74.6 billion, either by selling equities on the market, or from profits.

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