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Bank Failure

City Savings, FSB

Closed December 8, 1989 · Somerset, NJ · FDIC Cert #28406.

Closing date
December 8, 1989
Headquarters
Somerset, NJ
FDIC Certificate
28406
Total assets at closing
$9.81B
Total deposits at closing
$7.32B
Estimated loss to DIF
$1.57B
Resolution
Failure (closed by regulators). The FDIC record lists the resolution as: branch sale.

Context

On December 8, 1989, regulators closed City Savings, FSB, headquartered in Somerset, NJ. At closing, the institution held approximately $9.81B in assets and $7.32B in deposits. The FDIC record lists the resolution as a branch sale; no acquiring institution is named. The estimated cost to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund was approximately $1.57B.

By assets at closing this is the 19th largest of the 3,524 bank failures in the FDIC record, and the 2nd of 530 in 1989. It falls in the period the record labels S&L / Banking Crisis (1980-1995), a period with 2,367 failures peaking at 530 in 1989.

Deregulation, interest-rate shocks, and commercial real estate blowups produced the worst US banking failure wave since the Depression. Resulted in FIRREA (1989) and the RTC.

Source: FDIC Failed Banks list. Asset and deposit values reflect the most recent regulatory filing prior to closing.

Common questions

When did City Savings, FSB fail?

City Savings, FSB was closed by regulators on December 8, 1989.

How big was City Savings, FSB when it failed?

City Savings, FSB had approximately $9.81B in total assets and $7.32B in deposits at the time of failure.

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Date Bank HQ Assets
Dec 21, 1989 Columbia FSA Nassau Bay, TX $77.1M
Dec 21, 1989 Silver Savings Assoc. Silver City, NM $32.2M
Dec 20, 1989 First City National Bank and Trust New York, NY $39.5M
Dec 20, 1989 United Community Bank Westlake Village, CA $32.3M
Dec 15, 1989 First American Bank and Trust North Palm Beach, FL $1.38B
Dec 14, 1989 Yorkridge-Calvert Federal Savings Baltimore, MD $585.8M
Dec 14, 1989 Louisiana Savings ASSN. Lake Charles, LA $449.3M
Dec 14, 1989 First Acadiana Bank Eunice, LA $46.8M