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Regulators take over small bank in Oklahoma; Brings US bank failures to 12 in 2014
– canadianbusiness.com
WASHINGTON – Regulators have closed a lender in Oklahoma, bringing U.S. bank failures this year to 12 after 24 closures in all of 2013.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday that it has taken over Freedom State Bank, based in Freedom, Oklahoma.
The bank, which operated one branch, had about $22.8 million in assets and $20.9 million in deposits.
Alva State Bank & Trust Co. agreed to pay the FDIC a premium of 1 per cent to assume all the deposits of Freedom State Bank. It also agreed to buy roughly $17.7 million of the failed bank’s assets.
The failure of Freedom State Bank is expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $5.8 million.
U.S. bank failures have been declining since they peaked in 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession.
Only three banks went under in 2007. That jumped to 25 in 2008, after the financial meltdown, and ballooned to 140 in 2009.
In 2010, regulators seized 157 banks, the most in any year since the savings and loan crisis two decades ago…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday that it has taken over Freedom State Bank, based in Freedom, Oklahoma.
The bank, which operated one branch, had about $22.8 million in assets and $20.9 million in deposits.
Alva State Bank & Trust Co. agreed to pay the FDIC a premium of 1 per cent to assume all the deposits of Freedom State Bank. It also agreed to buy roughly $17.7 million of the failed bank’s assets.
The failure of Freedom State Bank is expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $5.8 million.
U.S. bank failures have been declining since they peaked in 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession.
Only three banks went under in 2007. That jumped to 25 in 2008, after the financial meltdown, and ballooned to 140 in 2009.
In 2010, regulators seized 157 banks, the most in any year since the savings and loan crisis two decades ago…
