New York Times | Financier Aims to Buy Struggling Small Banks

. . . “For Abu Dhabi to come in and try to cobble together eight different thrifts into a multibillion-dollar deal is enormously complicated,” said Douglas Rediker, co-director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation, a research organization in Washington. “But Wilbur Ross is an active investor who knows how to do this.” . . .