troubled-bank list

he number of banks in financial trouble nationwide is expected to grow this year, but any failures should be manageable, one of the country’s top banking regulators said Tuesday. New data on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s so-called troubled-bank list will show an increase over the current 76 banks on the list, Sheila Bair, chairman of the FDIC, said. But, she cautioned “that is not a big number” and that increase will not necessarily lead to a wave of bank failures.