Florida's Horizon Bank Closed by Regulators, Becomes 119th Failure of 2010
Regulators closed Bradenton, Florida’s Horizon Bank and sold it to Bank of the Ozarks as the number of U.S. lenders closed this year climbed to 119.
Horizon Bank’s $164.6 million in deposits will be transferred to Bank of the Ozarks, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to a statement on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s website. The closure cost the agency’s deposit-insurance fund $58.9 million.
“Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship in order to retain their deposit insurance coverage,” the FDIC said.
The FDIC’s list of “problem” banks climbed to 829 lenders with $403 billion in assets at the end of the second quarter, a 7 percent increase from the 775 on the list in the first quarter, the FDIC said last month. Banks are suffering from real estate losses and a sluggish economic recovery.
To contact the reporter on this story: Dakin Campbell in San Francisco at dcampbell27@bloomberg.net
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