Skip to main content

Bank Failure

Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc.

BankRegReports is independent of Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc. and never asks for online banking logins or passwords.

Closed April 27, 1989 · Denville, NJ · FDIC Cert #30374.

Closing date
April 27, 1989
Headquarters
Denville, NJ
FDIC Certificate
30374
Total assets at closing
$168.2M
Total deposits at closing
$174.9M
Estimated loss to the insurance fund
Not available (the FDIC feed's figure of $16K is not consistent with a failure of this size)
Insurance fund
Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC)
Resolution
Failure (closed by regulators)
Acquirer
Collective FSB

Context

On April 27, 1989, regulators closed Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc., headquartered in Denville, NJ. At closing, the institution held approximately $168.2M in assets and $174.9M in deposits. The FDIC record names Collective FSB as the acquiring institution in the resolution.

By assets at closing this is the 867th largest of the 3,526 bank failures in the FDIC record, and the 149th 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 Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc. fail?

Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc. was closed by regulators on April 27, 1989.

Who acquired Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc.?

The FDIC record names Collective FSB as the acquiring institution in the resolution of Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc.

How big was Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc. when it failed?

Metropolitan Fed. S & L Assoc. had approximately $168.2M in total assets and $174.9M in deposits at the time of failure.

Other failures in 1989

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