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The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of approximately a third of the savings and loan associations (S&Ls or thrifts) in the United States between 1986 and 1995.
In 1984, Gibraltar Savings was acquired by First Texas Financial Corporation. FTFC, which had acquired First Texas Savings Association in Dallas in 1982, was controlled by nursing home developer J. Livingston Kosberg. [3] An investor in FTFC was lawyer and political power broker Robert S. Strauss, who owned 10% of the stock. His son, real ...
Sunbelt Savings Irving: Texas: 1991 $6.0 billion $13 billion Western Savings and Loan: Phoenix: Arizona: 1989 $5.7 billion $14 billion Columbia Savings & Loan Assn. Beverly Hills: California: 1991 $5.4 billion $12 billion Lincoln Savings and Loan Association: Irvine: California: 1989 $4.9 billion $12 billion California National Bank: Los ...
Charles Edwin Hurwitz (born 1940) is an American businessman and financier known for his role in the 1980s savings and loan crisis, and his takeover of Pacific Lumber Company, a logging company active in Humboldt County, California.
F. Far East National Bank; Farmers and Mechanics Bank (Middletown, Connecticut) Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles; Farmers and Merchants Bank of Western Pennsylvania
In the 1970s, toward the tail end of a lengthy period of expansion and acquisition, Republic acquired the Houston National Bank and held a substantial portfolio of loans to the real estate industry in Texas. [1] In the late 1980s Savings and Loan crisis, Texas in general and Republic's loan portfolio in particular were hit hard by real estate ...
The U.S. savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s was the failure of 747 savings and loan associations in the United States. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around $160.1 billion, about $124.6 billion of which was directly paid for by the U.S. federal government. [1]
Lincoln Savings and Loan Association was founded in Los Angeles as a California chartered savings & loan in 1925. [1] Through the early 1980s, Lincoln was a conservatively-run enterprise, with almost half its assets in home loans and only a quarter of its assets considered at risk. [2]