The Epassporte news is very unfortunate. I consider Epassporte to be a bank of some kind. This reminds me of recent news on October 1st, 2010: Regulators close small Florida, Wash. banks.
Read more here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101002/..._bank_closures
The USA small banks are weak. 129 is the number of U.S. bank failures this year.