1. Go the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) website at https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/index.html and look up recent bank failures. Print out the information about one of the banks. Given the alternatives discussed in the text, how did the FDIC handle the failure?
2. Visit the website for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) at https://www.occ.treas.gov/econ.htm, select one of the research paper in their working paper series, and explain, as an abstract, the article.
3. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) routinely updates information on risk-based capital requirements. Go to their website at https://www.bis.org/publ/index.htm and print out the latest update.