Friday, July 03, 2009

Seven banks seized by FDIC


Regulators shut down seven more banks Thursday in a pre-holiday sweep that pushed the number of failures this year to 52.

Six of the banks closed Thursday were in Illinois. According to the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., all six were controlled by a single family and had similar business models that created a concentration of risk around collateralized debt obligations and other holdings.

The
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shut down Founders Bank, of Worth, Ill., and appointed the FDIC as receiver. It arranged for The PrivateBank and Trust Co. to assume the failed bank's 11 branches and roughly $849 million in deposits.

PrivateBank paid a 1.5 percent premium for the deposits. It also agreed to buy $888.4 million of the failed bank's assets, with $617 million of that amount subject to a loss-sharing deal with the FDIC.

Founders Bank had suffered heavy losses on securities and loans and had been ordered to raise $50 million in new capital. It was the biggest of the banks that were seized.

The others were
First National Bank of Danville, in Danville, Ill.; Elizabeth State Bank, in Elizabeth, Ill.; First State Bank of Winchester, in Winchester, Ill.; Rock River Bank, of Oregon, Ill., John Warner Bank, of Clinton, Ill., and Millennium State Bank of Texas, in Dallas.

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