Sunday, January 10, 2010

Horizon Bank, seized by FDIC, becomes first failure of 2010

Regulators seized Horizon Bank in Bellingham, Wash., on Friday, making it the first bank failure of 2010.

The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. arranged for Washington Federal Savings and Loan Association to take over Horizon's 18 branches, $1.1 billion in deposits and $1.3 billion in assets.

The FDIC and Washington Federal entered into a loss-sharing arrangement covering roughly $1 billion of the failed bank's assets.

Washington Federal is based in Seattle. It received $200 million in aid through the
Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008, but repaid the money last May, citing "onerous additional restrictions'' imposed by Congress.

Read on.

No comments: