SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The Office of Thrift Supervision has closed Alpharetta, Georgia-based NetBank Inc. , and named the FDIC receiver of its assets. ”The failed bank was an Internet bank and did not have any physical branches,” the FDIC said in a statement posted online Friday, ”Depositors of NetBank will automatically become depositors of ING Bank.” NetBank had $2.5 billion in total assets and $2.3 billion in total deposits as of June 30, the FDIC said. While the NetBank Web site is currently out of service, a notice posted on the site says that ”normal online services will be restored in the early evening Sunday, September 30th.”
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