Florida Bank Fails, Tally Hits 71 - Analyst Blog
September 12 2011 - 12:04PM
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Last Friday, U.S. regulators shuttered The First National Bank
of Florida, taking the number of failed banks thus far in 2011 to
71. This follows 157 bank failures in 2010, 140 in 2009 and 25 in
2008.
While the financials of bigger banks have been stabilizing on
the back of an economic recovery, many smaller banks are still
struggling to survive. Nagging issues like rock-bottom home prices
along with still-high loan defaults and unemployment levels
continue to trouble such institutions.
Lingering effects of the financial crisis continue to weigh on
many banks. It becomes obligatory for such banks to absorb bad
loans offered during the credit explosion, making these susceptible
to severe problems. The uncertain environment is aggravating the
risk of bank failures even further.
Located at Milton, The First National Bank of Florida had total
assets of about $296.8 million and total deposits of about $280.1
million as of June 30, 2011.
This failure represents another blow to the deposit insurance
fund (DIF), meant for protecting customer accounts.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insures
deposits in 7,513 banks and savings associations in the country as
well as promotes the safety and soundness of these institutions.
When a bank fails, the agency reimburses customer deposits of up to
$250,000 per account.
Though the FDIC has managed to increase its deposit insurance
fund over the last few quarters, the ongoing bank failures have
kept it under pressure. However, as of June 30, 2011, the fund
recovered to post a surplus of $3.9 billion, substantially better
than the deficit of $1.0 billion in the prior quarter. The positive
fund balance seen for the first time in two years was aided by a
moderate pace of bank failures and assessment revenue.
The failure of The First National Bank of Florida is expected to
deal a blow of about $46.9 million to the FDIC.
West Point, Georgia-based CharterBank has agreed to assume
the assets and deposits of The First National Bank of Florida.
The FDIC and CharterBank have agreed to share losses on $216.3
million of The First National Bank of Florida's assets.
The number of banks on FDIC’s list of problem institutions fell
sharply to 865 in the second quarter from 888 in the preceding
quarter. This represents the first sequential drop since 2006.
Increasing loan losses on commercial real estate could trigger
hundreds of bank failures in the coming years. However, considering
the failure trail so far this year, the FDIC does not expect the
number of bank failures in 2011 to exceed the 2010 tally.
With so many bank failures, consolidation has become the
industry fashion. For almost all the failed banks, the FDIC enters
into a purchase agreement with healthy institutions.
When Washington Mutual collapsed in 2008 (branded as the largest
bank failure in the U.S. history), it was acquired by
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM). The other major
acquirers of failed institutions since 2008 include U.S.
Bancorp (USB) and BB&T Corporation
(BBT).
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