First US bank collapse of 2010 - Horizon Bank
18:57, 10 January 2010
ASTANA. January 10. KAZINFORM A small bank in the state of Washington became the first US bank to collapse in 2010, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said, Kazinform refers to Trend News.
Horizon Bank's estimated 1.3 billion dollars in assets and 1.1 billion dollars in deposits are being assumed by Washington Federal Savings and Loan Association, of Seattle, Washington, the FDIC said Friday. Horizon had 18 branches which will be taken over by Washington Federal Savings and Loan, dpa reported.
FDIC estimated that losses to its insurance fund would be limited to 540 million dollars.
Horizon joined the 140 US banks closed by regulators in 2009 amidst bad real estate loans that contributed to the recession, the highest number of banks to collapse since the end of the savings-and- loan crisis in 1992, when 181 lenders failed, the Wall Street Journal reported, Kazinform cites Trend News. See www.en.trend.az for full version.