by Calculated Risk on 9/19/2008 07:36:00 PM
Friday, September 19, 2008
Bank Failure: Ameribank, Inc., Northfork, WV
From the FDIC: Failed Bank Information for Ameribank, Inc., Northfork, WV
Ameribank, Inc., was closed today by the Office of the Thrift Supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver. The FDIC entered into purchase and assumption agreements with Pioneer Community Bank, Inc., Iaeger, West Virginia, and The Citizens Savings Bank, Martins Ferry, Ohio to take over all of the deposits and certain assets of Ameribank, Inc., Northfork, West Virginia.Now it feels like a Friday!
Ameribank has five branches located in West Virginia and three branches located in Ohio. Pioneer Community Bank, Inc., Iaeger, West Virginia will assume all deposits for the five branches located in West Virginia. The Citizens Savings Bank, Martins Ferry, Ohio will assume all deposits for the three branches located in Ohio.
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As of June 30, 2008, Ameribank, Inc. had total assets of $115 million and total deposits of $102 million.
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The cost of the transactions to the Deposit Insurance Fund is estimated to be $42 million. The failed bank had assets of $112.62 million, .033 percent of the $13.4 trillion in assets held by the 8,451 institutions insured by the FDIC. Ameribank, Inc. is the first bank to be closed in West Virginia since First National Bank of Keystone, Keystone, on September 1, 1999. This year, a total of twelve FDIC-insured banks have been closed.