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Federal Deposit Insurance C orporation
Washington, D.C.
June 1,1984

SIRS: In accordance with the provisions of section 17(a) of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation is pleased to submit its Annual Report for the
calendar year 1983.

Very truly yours,

W illiam M. Isaac
Chairman

The President of the U.S. Senate
The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives




BQ4RD
OF
DIRECTORS

iv



William M. Isaac

Irvine H. Sprague

William M. Isaac has been
Chairman of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation since
August 3,1981. He was a p ­
pointed to a six-year term on the
FDIC's Board of Directors in
March 1978. From 1974 to 1978
he was vice president, general
counsel and secretary of First
Kentucky National Corporation
and its subsidiaries, First National
Bank of Louisville and First
Kentucky Trust Company. From
1969 to 1974 he practiced law
with Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. A native of Bryan,
Ohio, Mr, Isaac received his
undergraduate degree from
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
and his law degree (summa cum
laude) from The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio.

Irvine FI. Sprague, a member of
the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation Board of Directors
from 1969 to 1972, and from 1979
to date, served as FDIC Chair­
man from February 1979 to
August 1981. He has held a
number of other government
positions, including Special
Assistant to President Lyndon
Johnson in the White House,
Deputy Director of Finance for
the State of California, and
Executive Director of the Steering
and Policy Committee in the U.S.
House of Representatives. Mr.
Sprague, a native of Stockton,
California, is a graduate of the
College of the Pacific and the
Advanced M anagem ent Pro­
gram at Harvard and also
attended George Washington
University and Indiana University.
Mr. Sprague entered the Army in
World War II as a private and
retired from the Army Reserve as
a lieutenant colonel. He earned
the Com bat Infantry Badge,
Purple Heart, California Medal of
Merit and two Bronze Stars.

C. T. Conover
C. T. Conover becam e
Comptroller of the Currency in
December 1981. Mr. Conover, a
native of Bronxville, New York,
who holds a BA from Yale
University and an MBA from the
University of California at
Berkeley, started in banking as a
m anagem ent trainee with
Seattle-First National Bank. He
cam e to the Comptroller's post
from Edgar, Dunn & Conover,
Inc., a general management
consulting firm he helped found
in San Francisco. Earlier he was
part of the m anagem ent con­
sulting group of Touche Ross &
Co., San Francisco, serving as a
principal and national services
director from 1974 to 1978. Prior
to that, Mr. Conover was vice
president of U.S. Bancorp,
Portland, Oregon, He was a
m anagement consultant with
McKinsey and Company from
1965 to 1972.




'I

The Board of Directors of the FDIC: (from left)
Irvine H. Sprague, Director; C. T. Conover,
Comptroller of the Currency, and Chairman
William M. Isaac.

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The FDIC Senior M anagem ent Group: (from left) Robert V. Shumway, Director, Division of Bank Supervision; Margaret L.
Egginton, Deputy to the Chairman; Stanley C. Silverberg, Director, Division of Research and Strategic Planning; Chairman
William M. Isaac; James A. Davis, Director, Division of Liquidation; Stanley J. Poling, Director, Division of Accounting and
Corporate Services, and Thomas A. Brooks, General Counsel, Legal Division.

FDIC
OFFICIALS
Deputy to the Chairman
M a rg a re t L. Egginton
Assistant to the Deputy to the Chairman
Christie A. S c iacc a
Deputy to the Director
John R. Curtis
Special Assistant to the Director
Kenneth Fulton
Deputy to the Director (Comptroller of the
Currency)
Alan Herlands
Special Assistant to the Director (Comptroller
of the Currency)
Laura L. McAuliffe
Director, Division of Bank Supervision
Robert V. Shumway
General Counsel
Thomas A. Brooks
Director, Division of Liquidation
Jam es A. Davis



Director, Division of Accounting and
Corporate Services
Stanley J. Poling
Director, Division of Research and Strategic
Planning
Stanley C. Silverberg
Executive Secretary
Hoyle L. Robinson
Director, Office of Congressional Relations
and Public Information
G rah am T. Northup
Public Information Officer
Alan J. W hitney
Director, Office of Corporate Audits and
Internal Investigations
Robert D. Hoffman
Director, Office of Personnel Management
Jack C. Pleasant
Director, Office of Equal Employment
Opportunity
Joe S. Arnold
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REGIONS,
AREAS
AND

DIRECTORS
R e g io n a l O ffic e s a n d D irecto rs
ATLANTA

MEMPHIS

Edwin B. Burr
233 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2400
Atlanta, G eorgia 30043

Sandra A. W aldrop
1 C om m erce Square, Suite 1800
Memphis, Tennessee 38103

BOSTON

MINNEAPOLIS

James E. Halvorson
60 State Street, 17th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02109

Billy C. M ullican
730 Second Avenue South, Suite 266
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

C H IC A G O

NEW YORK

Paul G. Fritts
233 S. W acker Drive, Suite 6116
C hicago, Illinois 60606

Bernard J. McKeon
345 Park Avenue, 21st Floor
New York, New York 10154

COLUMBUS

OM AHA

Charles E. Doster
1 Nationw ide Plaza, Suite 2600
Columbus, O hio 43215

Milos Konjevich, Jr.
1700 Farnam Street, Suite 1200
O m aha, Nebraska 68102

DALLAS

PHILADELPHIA

Roy E. Jackson
350 North St. Paul Street, Suite 2000
Dallas, Texas 75201

Robert A. Dorbad
1900 Market Street, Suite 616
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

KANSAS

SAN FRANCISCO

Joseph V. Prohaska
2345 G rand Avenue, Suite 1500
Kansas City, Missouri 64108

Anthony S. Scalzi
25 Ecker Street, Suite 2300
San Francisco, California 94105

L iq u id a tio n A re a O ffic e s a n d D irectors
MIDWEST AREA

SOUTHWEST AREA

Thomas A. Beshara
200 W. Madison Street, Suite 700
C hicago, Illinois 60606

G. M ichael Newton
1910 Pacific Avenue, Floor 16
Dallas, Texas 75201

NORTHEAST AREA

WESTERN AREA

M ichael J. Martinelli
116 West 32nd Street, 12th Floor
New York, New York 10001

Frank K. Pesek
25 Ecker Square, Suite 1900
San Francisco, California 94105

SOUTHEAST AREA
M ichael B. Burgee
233 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2000
Atlanta, G eorgia 30043

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WBLE
OF
CONTENTS




FDIC B o a rd o f D ir e c to r s _________________________________________ iv
FDIC O rg a n iz a tio n C h a r t ________________________________________ vi
FDIC O ffic ia ls ____________________________________________________ vii
FDIC R eg io n s, L iq u id a tio n A re a O ffic e s
a n d D ir e c to r s _________________________________________________ viii
C h a ir m a n ’s S t a t e m e n t __________________________________________ x
O p e ra tio n s o f th e C o r p o r a t io n _________________________________ 2
F in a n c ia l S ta te m e n ts ____________________________________________ 18
L e g isla tio n a n d R e g u la tio n s ____________________________________32
Legislation - 1 9 83 _______________________________ 32
Regulations - 1 9 8 3 ______________________________ 33
History o f th e F D IC ______________________________________________ 40
Statistics o f C lo s e d Banks a n d D e p o s it In s u r a n c e ____________ 52
Banks Closed Because of Financial Difficulties, FDIC Income,
Disbursements, and Losses
In d e x _____________________________________________________________ 59

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CHWIRIVWN’S
SWTEMENT
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
reached an important milestone on June 16,
1983, when it com pleted its 50th year of
service to the nation and the banking public.
The occasion was marked by several
receptions, the dedication of a permanent
lobby exhibit, and the unveiling of the design
for a commemorative U.S. postage stamp to
be issued early in 1984.
Although the anniversary was observed in
a festive atmosphere, 1983 was a year of
serious and intense activity for the FDIC.
There were 48 bank failures, which was a
post-Depression record, including several
large institutions. This resulted in a substantial
increase in the volume of assets acquired for
liquidation in our role as receiver for failed
banks.
Despite the challenges and the adversity,
the FDIC met its responsibilities in a fashion
that maintained public confidence.
Operations continued smoothly and
efficiently, the FDIC tested new techniques
for handling failures, and the insurance fund
stood at a record $15,4 billion at year's end.
The Corporation's administrative budget
for the year totalled $136 million, an increase
of just 4,4 percent over expenditures in 1982
following an increase of only 2,2 percent the
previous year, The closing of the Madison
Regional Office and transfer of its operations
to the Chicago and Columbus Regional
Offices resulted in a projected savings of
over $1 million annually, The FDIC also
com pleted on schedule the opening and
staffing of five new Area Liquidation Offices.
By decentralizing supervision of bank
liquidations, the FDIC expects to cope more
effectively with a growing workload.
While 1983 was a year of achievement, it
also was a year in which the need for major
changes in the regulatory and deposit
insurance structures becam e increasingly
apparent. Striking changes in the
competitive environment for financial
institutions have m ade it clear that the
mechanisms crafted to regulate and insure
them half a century ago no longer are
appropriate and that change can no longer
be delayed.
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Chairman William M. Isaac

The most fundamental change has been
the growth in competition in the banking
markets flowing from deregulation. This
enhanced competition has given rise to
increased risk and greater opportunities for
banks to fail. Our deposit insurance system
continues to provide needed protection for
consumers. However, because most failures
result in mergers, large depositors and other
bank creditors have perceived that their
funds are only minimally at risk, if at all,
resulting in a pronounced deterioration of
market discipline.
In April, in response to a provision of the
Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of
1982, the FDIC submitted to Congress a
deposit insurance study. Similar studies were
prepared by the other deposit insurance
agencies. The FDIC stressed 1wo themes:
marketplace discipline must increase as
government controls on the banking industry

are reduced, and major reforms of the
regulatory and insurance systems must occur
for those systems to continue to be effective
and equitable in today's deregulated
environment.
Legislation was introduced late in 1983 at
the FDIC's request by Senator Jake Garn and
Congressman Fernand St Germain to
strengthen and refine the provisions of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act. The Federal
Deposit Insurance Improvements Act of 1983
(bills S. 2103 and H.R. 4451) would authorize
the FDIC to vary deposit insurance premium
rebates on the basis of the risk that any
insured bank presents to the fund. It would
require that the FDIC be designated as the
receiver for any closed insured bank, and it
would set priorities for payment of claims
against a failed bank. The proposal also
would provide the FDIC with enforcement
authority over national and state member
banks, as well as new authority to facilitate
the operations of a Deposit Insurance
National Bank formed by the FDIC to wrap
up the affairs of a closed bank. Finally, the
legislation would eliminate the necessity of
FDIC approval of branch applications by
state banks.
Providing an important adjunct to these
external initiatives, the FDIC's two principal
operating elements — the Divisions of
Liquidation and Bank Supervision — this year
began developing their first long-term
strategic plans, These are major efforts to
chart a course for the next five years by
anticipating possible industry and regulatory
developments, and planning to ensure that
the FDIC is properly oriented and has the
resources and technology to be effective in
an unpredictable environment.
The broad framework of the strategic plan
being developed by the Division of Bank
Supervision envisions movement from
"general purpose" regulation to focusing
more on safety and soundness issues. As
legislative reform permits, the FDIC will
withdraw from activities such as consumer
and investor protection and antitrust
determinations. These functions will be
reassigned to other appropriate agencies
and the FDIC will concentrate on its central
mission of promoting safety and soundness
in the banking system. This will involve the
identification and control of risk within the




system generally, and closely monitoring
individual problem banks.
The Division of Bank Supervision adopted
several measures in 1983 to initiate this new
supervisory direction. One step is to examine
non-problem banks once every 36 months
instead of every 18 months, unless analysis of
quarterly reports indicates the development
of weaknesses in an institution, This enables
our examining staff to concentrate on
problem banks, resulting in more effective
supervision and a reduction for well-run
banks in their regulatory burden.
A second undertaking involves
agreements with the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal
Flome Loan Bank Board on cooperative
examination programs for national banks
and federal savings banks. These ventures
focus primarily on problem banks, and are
producing stronger, better coordinated
supervisory efforts.
The Division of Liquidation's strategic plan
aims at keeping pace with a continued high
rate of bank failures, and the adoption of
innovative means of handling failed banks
and liquidating their assets. In addition to
addressing broad policy issues, the plan calls
for a major overhaul of antiquated
procedures and the introduction of an
advanced automated data processing
capability. Specific objectives include
developing improved procedures for
paying off depositors with minimal
disruption in the community, expanding the
Division's ability to rapidly dispose of assets
and increase collections while minimizing
costs, increasing profits from assets being
operated until they are sold, and the
adoption of automated systems to improve
cash and asset management.
The FDIC in 1984 will extend the long-range
planning process Corporation-wide, review
carefully its organizational structure, and
work for progressive legislation involving
further banking deregulation and an
improved regulatory structure.
William M, Isaac
Chairm an

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THE
YEAR’S
ACTIVITIES

DECISIONS
AMD
RULINGS

During 1983, the FDIC focused on further
deregulation of the banking industry and
response to changes in the industry resulting
from deregulation.
As a member of the Depository Institutions
Deregulation Committee (DIDC), the
Chairman of the FDIC Board of Directors
took part in Committee actions that
accomplished almost com plete
deregulation of interest rates paid by insured
banks and thrift institutions on deposits. All
limits were removed on interest rates
payable on deposits with maturities in excess
of 31 days. The only remaining controls are a
5 Vi percent ceiling on passbook accounts
and a 5
percent limit on NOW accounts
and money market deposit accounts with
balances under $2,500.
The Chairman of the FDIC also is
Chairman of the Federal Financial Institutions
Examination Council (FFIEC), which in 1983
approved new Commercial Bank Reports of
Condition and Income that are to be
effective with the filing of the March 31,1984,
reports. The revised reports reflect changes
arising from deregulation and evolving
industry practices and provide supervisory
authorities with new and better regulatory
data. The FFIEC also implemented provisions
of the Garn-St Germain Act dealing with the
reporting and public disclosure of insider
loans by commercial and mutual savings
banks.

The Board of Directors acted on a number
of key issues during the year, including new
reporting rules on brokered deposits and a
policy on insider loans. The Board also
solicited public and industry com m ent in two
controversial areas: (1) possible curbs on
insurance of brokered deposits, and (2)
whether the FDIC should impose limits on
bank involvement in new financial services
outside the traditional boundaries of
banking. In addition, the General Counsel
issued an opinion on the legality of banks
providing discount brokerage services.

2



Brokered Deposits
The Board of Directors voted to require
that nonmember banks include in their
Reports of Condition the dollar amount of
their brokered deposits, regardless of the size
of the deposit or the type of deposit
instrument issued. Brokered deposits include
those in which the entire deposit is held by a
single depositor, as well as those in which
the broker sells participations to one or more
investors.
The rapid growth of deposit brokering is of
increasing concern to the FDIC because it
undermines the disciplinary check on
excessive bank risk-taking normally exercised
by large depositors.
Because large brokered deposits typically
are divided into insured segments at
different institutions, there is no need for the
depositor or the broker to analyze an
institution's likelihood of continued financial
viability. The result is an undermining of
market discipline, Such deposits also can
artificially extend the life of a poorlym anaged institution, increasing the FDIC's
costs when market forces finally cause
failure.
On November 1, the FDIC and the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board jointly issued an
advance notice of proposed rulemaking
soliciting com m ent on whether regulatory or
legislative steps should be taken to curb the
undesirable effects of deposit brokering
among banks and savings associations.

Insider Loans

Non-Banking Financial Services

The FDIC eliminated the requirement for
prior approval Py a majority of a bank's
board of directors of all extensions of credit
exceeding in the aggregate $25,000 to one
of the bank's directors, executive officers,
principal shareholders, or to any of their
"related interests." Instead, all loans that
exceed in the aggregate five percent of
capital and unimpaired surplus or $25,000,
whichever is greater, must receive prior
board approval. Prior approval is required
for any loans that total more than $500,000.
The am ended rule reduced the regulatory
burden by raising the threshold amount
which triggers the prior approval
requirement.

Noting that the erosion of traditional
boundaries am ong banking, other financial
services and general com m erce is
transforming the financial environment, the
Board issued an advance notice of
proposed rulemaking on bank involvement
in historically "non-banking" activities.
Specifically, the Board solicited com m ent on:
- the need to regulate the direct or
indirect involvement of insured banks in
real estate or insurance brokerage and
underwriting, data processing services,
travel agency activities, and other
financially-related activities, and,
- what limitations, if any, the FDIC should
impose on the ownership of insured
banks by companies engaged in such
activities.
The Board said it was motivated to explore
this controversial area by its obligation, as
insurer for the banking system, to monitor
marketplace developments and changes in
law and to assess their potential im pact on
bank safety and soundness.

The Task Group on Regulation of Financial Services, in 1983 com pleted its task of creating a regulatory restructuring plan for
the federal banking agencies. Members of the Task Group (from left, facing cam era) are Joseph R. Wright, Deputy Director,
OMB; Martin Feldstein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors; Edgar F. Callahan, Chairman, NCUA; FDIC Chairman
William M. Isaac; Attorney General William French Smith; Susan Phillips, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission;
Jack A. Svahn, Assistant to the President for Policy Development; John Shad, Chairman, SEC; Donald T. Regan, Secretary of
the Treasury; Vice President George Bush, Task Group Chairman; Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and C. Todd
Conover, Comptroller of the Currency.




Discount Brokerage
The FDIC's General Counsel issued an
opinion on the legality of insured state
nonmember banks offering discount
brokerage services. The opinion was issued
in response to numerous inquiries about
whether such banks are permitted under the
Glass-Steagall Act to enter into contractual
agreements with unrelated discount brokers
who execute securities transactions for bank
customers and share the resulting
commissions with the bank.
The General Counsel concluded that
banks are permitted to offer such services.
The opinion noted, however, that the legality
of any particular brokerage activity may vary
from case to case.




SUPERVISORY
OPERATIONS
The Division of Bank Supervision
experienced a substantial reduction in 1983
in the number of bank examinations, from
17,886 in 1982 to 12,977 this year. This decline
had two principal causes. First was a
redirection of resources and emphasis from
well-operated banks to problem institutions,
based on the premise that the FDIC's
greatest exposure is am ong banks that pose
a threat of insolvency, not am ong the vast
majority of banks that have a proven record
of sound operation. The second factor was a
threefold increase — from about 70,000
hours in 1982 to 210,000 hours this year — in
details of examiner personnel to assist in the
liquidation of a record number of failed
banks,
The Division's reordering of its examination
priorities was facilitated by the increasing
sophistication of the Corporation's Integrated
Monitoring System (IMS). The IMS is used for
offsite analysis of quarterly bank reports,
permitting financial analysts to identify and
target specific problem areas.

Examiners Keith B. Nothstein (foreground)
and (from left) Daniel E. Austin, Davis L.
Statton and William C. Spangler, Jr., ana­
lyze assets and liabilities at the Fredericktown Bank and Trust Company, Frederick,
Maryland, as they prepare their examina­
tion report.

These problems then are addressed in
short-term visits to the banks in place of
more frequent full-scale examinations. The
result is more efficient use of the Division's
most valuable resource — its people — and
diminished supervisory burden on the
banking system.
Examination activities in 1983 included
4,352 safety and soundness examinations,
3,467 consumer and civil rights com pliance
examinations, 850 examinations of bank trust
departments, 1,015 examinations of data
processing facilities, 563 investigations, and
2,730 applications reviews.
Based on its examinations and bank
monitoring activities, the FDIC compiles an
internal list of banks that are financially
unsafe or unsound and pose a threat of
failure. There were 642 banks on the
problem bank list at the end of 1983,
com pared with 369 on the list at year-end
1982. The increased number of banks on the
list during 1983 reflects the continued effects
of the recent econom ic recession and
increased competition among banks due to
deregulation. Most banks are removed from
the problem list after applying corrective
measures required by the FDIC.
The FDIC is responsible for supervising
bank trust departments and was supervising
2,620 departments in commercial banks and
25 in mutual savings bank at the end of 1983,
including 82 departments approved for
operation during the year. The dollar volume
of trust account assets in these banks
totalled $75 billion.
In addition to trust departm ent supervision,
the FDIC supervised the securities activities of
288 banks that had more than $1 million in
assets and 500 or more shareholders of any
class of equity security, and 364 banks that
were registered securities transfer agents.
Provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 give the FDIC supervisory responsibility
for such banks.




Applications
Banks must apply to the FDIC for deposit
insurance, and this includes foreign banks
seeking insurance for their U.S. branches.
During 1983 the FDIC received six
applications for deposit insurance in
domestic branches of foreign banks. State
non-member banks also must obtain FDIC
permission to merge with another bank,
relocate a branch or establish new offices.
The FDIC also has authority over changes of
control of banks and over who may serve as
a director, officer or other employee of an
insured bank. The following data reflect FDIC
actions on applications it received during
1983.
FDIC APPLICATIONS

1983

1982

104
101
3

75
73
2

1,018
1,009
630
89
290
9

1,174
1,171
610
87
474
3

153
148
5

110
108
2

Request for Consent to Serve
Approved
Denied

48
42
6

48
48
0

Notices of changes in control
Approved
Denied

215
212
3

182
182
0

Deposit Insurance
Approved
Denied
New Branches
Approved
Branch
Ltd. Branch
Remote Service Facility
Denied
Mergers
Approved
Denied

5

The FDIC in 1983 am ended its procedures
for processing applications to establish or
relocate branches, or establish remote
service facilities. Under the new rule only a
letter application is needed in most cases. In
addition, the applicant usually is required to
publish only one notice of its intent rather
than two as previously required. These
changes have reduced the average
processing time for branch applications from
78 days to 18 days and have cut the
paperwork burden on applicants in half.
In addition to streamlining these
procedures, the FDIC this year simplified its
approval process for bank mergers. The FDIC
must approve any merger in which the
resulting bank would be an insured state
nonmember bank, as well as those in which
an insured bank merges with a non-insured
institution. In the past, the Director of DBS
and the Regional Directors had delegated
authority to approve, but not deny, such
transactions when they amounted to mere
corporate reorganizations or "phantom"
bank mergers. This year, the Board further
delegated to the same officials the authority
to approve, but not deny, substantive but
routine merger transactions, if conditions
specified in the FDI Act are satisfied and the
application meets certain criteria.
This delegation of authority eliminates
several levels of review, saves at least ten
days in the approval process, and allows
Board members to deal only with matters of
greater weight and urgency. The delegation
gives the FDIC greater flexibility to
accom m odate banks' particular
circumstances if the normal 30-day waiting
period might cause timing problems in a
merger transaction.

6



Attendees at a meeting of the FDIC Board of Review
are (from left); Charles Roger Denesia, (DBS); Christie A.
Sciacca, (Assistant to the Deputy to the Chairman);
William H. Roelle, (DACS); Alan S. McCall, (RES); Alan J.
Kaplan, Deputy Executive Secretary; Laura McAuliffe,
(Comptroller of the Currency); Irvine H. Sprague, FDIC
Director; John R. Curtis, Deputy to the Director; Douglas
H. Jones, (LEGAL); Arthur L. Beamon, (LEGAL); A. David
Meadows, (DBS); Edward T. Lutz, (DBS); Carmen J.
Sullivan, (DBS), and Charles E. Thacker, (DBS).

Legal Activities
In the legal area, the FDIC as receiver of
closed banks is involved in extensive
litigation connected with bank liquidation
activities. The FDIC also acts to correct
improper banking practices by issuing
cease-and-desist orders (Sections 8(b) and
8(c) of the FDI Act), levying civil money
penalties (Section 8(i)(2) and 180)(3) of the
Act), and terminating deposit insurance
(Section 8(a) of the Act).
The FDIC first used its authority to correct
bank's weaknesses or com pliance violations
in 1971, and from 1971 through 1975 issued 37
cease-and-desist orders. From 1976 through
1982 the FDIC issued 293 orders. During 1983,
the FDIC issued a total of 223 cease-anddesist orders.
The FDIC also is authorized to initiate
termination-of-insurance proceedings
against any bank in an unsafe or unsound
financial condition. The bank's customers
must be notified of the action, but deposits

Attorney Robert E. Feldman and law clerk
Laurack Bray discuss a point of law in the
Library.

(less subsequent withdrawals) continue to be
insured for two years.
The FDIC in 1983 initiated 26 terminationof-insurance proceedings, bringing to 307
the number of times it has taken such action
since 1933. In slightly less than half of the
cases, the banks involved corrected their
problems. In most of the remaining cases,
the banks were absorbed by other banks or
ceased operations before insurance was
actually discontinued.
Under Section 8(e) of the FDI Act, the FDIC
may remove an officer, director or other
person participating in the conduct of the
affairs of an FDIC-supervised bank if the
person has (1) violated a law, rule, regulation
or final cease-and-desist order, (2) engaged
in unsafe or unsound banking practices, or
(3) breached his or her fiduciary duty. The
individual's action must involve personal
dishonesty or a willful or continuing disregard
for the safety or soundness of the bank. Also,
the action must entail substantial financial




loss or other dam age to the bank, seriously
prejudice the interests of its depositors or
result in financial gain to. the individual.
During 1983 nine Section 8(e) proceedings
were initiated.
The FDIC levied fourteen civil money
penalties in 1983.
A narrative summary of FDIC's 1983
enforcement actions, case by case but
without banks' names, may be obtained
from the FDIC Office of Public Information,
550 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20429.
Summaries of enforcem ent actions for prior
years are included in the FDIC's annual
reports, also available from the Office of
Public Information.

7

Cease-and-Desist Orders and Actions to Correct
Specific Unsafe or Unsound Practices or Violations
of Law or Regulations: 1980,1981,1982, and 1983
1983

1982

1981

1980

Cease-and-desist
orders outstanding
at beginning of
year-total
Section 8(b)
Section 8(c)

106
105
1

78
78
0

90
88
2

88
88
0

Cease-and-desist
orders issued during
year
Section 8(b)
Section 8(c)

223
188
35

69
63
6

38
37
1

41
38
3

80
49
31

41
36
5

50
47
3

39
38
1

249
244
5

106
105
1

78
78
0

90
88
2

Cease-and-desist
orders terminatedtotal
Section 8(b)
Section 8(c)
Cease-and-desist
orders in force at
end of year-total
Section 8(b)
Section 8(c)

Divided Examinations
In 25 states, the FDIC has formal
agreements to divide the examination of
non-problem (1- and 2-rated) banks with
their state supervisors. The FDIC alternates
examinations with state banking authorities
to lighten the workload on all examiners and
avoid duplication. Informal agreements to
divide examinations are also in place in
several other states.
The Corporation in 1982 modified its
agreements with these states to arrange for
the FDIC to examine non-problem banks
once every 36 months instead of every other
year, with the states increasing the
frequency of their examinations. The new
arrangement took effect in October of 1983,
to give the states time to adjust to the new
schedule. The FDIC expects the reduced
schedule of examinations of non-problem
banks to lighten its workload in this area and
allow it to concentrate its resources on
problem banks.

8



Cooperative Examinations
Late in the year, the FDIC and the Office
of the Comptroller of the Currency
established a cooperative examination
program for national banks. The program will
begin January 1,1984, and will supplement
existing programs under which the two
agencies share information derived from
bank examinations.
The FDIC also reached agreem ent with
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in 1983
on procedures for the FDIC to examine
problem federal savings banks whose
deposits continue to be insured by the FDIC
even though the institutions have converted
from state to federal charter.
The FDIC expects both programs to
strengthen the overall supervisory process
and provide a better, more coordinated
way to supervise troubled banks. The joint
efforts also will help the FDIC to be more
effective in carrying out its responsibilities as
receiver for failed banks.

Regional Office Realignment
In November 1983 the FDIC Board of
Directors approved a Division of Bank
Supervision recommendation to close the
Madison Regional Office, and transfer its
Wisconsin operations to the Chicago
Regional Office and its Michigan operations
to the Columbus Regional Office, The
Madison Region historically had been one of
the FDIC's smaller regions in terms of both
workload and field staff. There had been a
25 percent decline since 1979 in the field
examiner staff in the Madison Region
because of decreasing workload, creating
an im balance between regional office and
field staffs. The realignment will save the FDIC
over $1 million annually.
The FDIC took immediate steps to help
those employees who were displaced by the
closing of the Madison Office. All employees
were offered com parable jobs elsewhere in
the Corporation. Plans called for the
Madison Office to remain open for up to
one year to provide for a smooth transition
of responsibilities and to allow adequate
time for assistance to any displaced
employees.

Potential acquirers of the failed First
National Bank of Midland, Midland,
Texas, meet with FDIC officials in
Washington, D.C., to make their
bids to assume the deposit liabili­
ties of the closed bank. The suc­
cessful bidder was RepublicBank
First National Midland.

C O M M ER C IA L
BANK
FAILURES
Commercial bank failures received
widespread attention during the year for
several reasons. First, the number of failures
— 48 — was the greatest since 1939, when
60 banks failed. Second, several of the
failures involved large, complex institutions
and, finally, some of the failures involved
controversial individuals and banking
practices.

United American Bank
The failure of the United American Bank
(UAB) in Knoxville, Tennessee, on February 15
initially m ade headlines because its owner,
Jake Butcher, was the principal organizer
and promoter of the 1982 World's Fair and
twice was a candidate for governor. Before
the year was out, seven more Tennessee
banks controlled by Jake Butcher or his
brother, C. H, Butcher, Jr., failed. As the story
unfolded, there were almost daily reports of
an excessive volume of classified loans,
loans to insiders, loans far from the bank's
trade area, and evidence of inaccurate or
deliberately misleading accounting,
The deposit liabilities and assets of UAB
were transferred to First Tennessee Bank of
Knoxville, a subsidiary of First Tennessee
Corporation, Tennessee's largest bank
holding company. The transaction was
noteworthy because it marked the first use of
the extraordinary acquisition provisions of the



Garn-St Germain Act. The Act permits the
sale of a failed bank with $500 million or
more in assets to an in-state or out-of-state
banking organization.
A number of firms throughout the United
States were invited to submit purchase
proposals to the FDIC and eight of them,
including three in Tennessee, elected to do
so. Because the proposal representing the
lowest cost to the FDIC was by an out-ofstate bidder, the Act required that a second
round of bids be sought from the top bidder
and from those within 15 percent of the top
bid. In this round the bank was awarded to
First Tennessee.
The Butcher organization consisted of
approximately 40 loosely-affiliated banks
and savings and loan associations operating
in two FDIC regions and three different
Federal Reserve Districts. A total of seven
different regulatory agencies were
responsible for supervising the various
institutions, making detection of problems
within the com bined organization
extraordinarily difficult.
The insolvency of UAB, and subsequently of
other Butcher-related institutions, was
discovered only because the FDIC undertook
in late 1982 a simultaneous examination of
the major Butcher-affiliated banks,
committing to the task nearly 10 percent of
its field workforce for almost three months.
9

Other Butcher Banks

Two other banks that had been part of the
Butcher organization also failed in 1983 and
their deposits were acquired by healthy
banks. The First Peoples Bank of Washington
County, Johnson City, Tennessee, was closed
on July 29. The First Commerce Bank of
Hawkins County, Rogersville, Tennessee, was
closed on August 12.
At the end of 1983, the FDIC was
estimating that its losses in connection with
the eight failed Butcher banks would amount
to approximately $382.6 million.

Five more banks in the Butcher empire
failed on May 27 and were assumed by
three other Tennessee banks. The
acquisitions were accomplished through
competitive bidding involving banking
institutions and individuals both from within
the state and from outside Tennessee. In
addition to assuming deposits and other
liabilities, the acquiring banks agreed to pay
purchase premiums to the FDIC totaling
$22.4 million. Each assuming bank
purchased selected assets of the bank it
acquired, To facilitate the transactions, the
FDIC advanced cash to the assuming banks
amounting to $402.1 million and retained
assets of the closed banks having a
combined book value of about $451.7
million.
(The Commercial Bank of California, in Los
Angeles, also failed on May 27, bringing the
total closings for the day to six, matching the
record set December 21,1936, when six
banks failed in North Dakota.)

First National Bank, M idland, Texas
On October 14, the second largest
commercial bank failure in FDIC history
occurred when the deposit liabilities of First
National Bank of Midland, Midland, Texas,
were assumed by RepublicBank First National
Midland, a newly-chartered subsidiary of
RepublicBank Corporation, Dallas, Texas. With
$1.4 billion in assets, First National was
surpassed only by the October 1974 failure of
New York City's Franklin National Bank.

Insured Bank Failures, 1934—1983
Number of banks

I

80

'34

10



'38

'42

'46

'50

Deposit Assumption

'54

'58

'62

H Deposit Payoff

'66

70

'74

78

'82

INSURED BANKS CLOSED DURING 1983 REQUIRING DISBURSEMENTS BY THE
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
Name and location

Date of deposit payout
or assumption

Number of depositors
or accounts

Amount of deposits
(in millions of dollars)

1. The Madison County Bank, Fredericktown, Missouri

January 21,1983

7,100

6.6

2. State Bank of Barnum, Barnum, Minnesota

February 9, 1983

3,043

12.6

302,531

2,038.0

3. Dry Dock Savings Bank, New York, New York

February 9, 1983

4. American State Bank, Bradley, Illinois

February 12, 1983

4,868

12.5

5. United American Bank in Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee

February 14, 1983

134,945

584.6

6. Merchants and Farmers State Bank, Blythe, California

February 18, 1983

1,500

5.2

7. American City Bank, Los Angeles, California

February 25,1983

25, 749

254.5
44.2

8. Newport Harbour National Bank, Newport Beach, California

March 11,1983

2,219

9. Columbia Pacific Bank and Trust Company, Portland, Oregon

March 18, 1983

2,000

31.6

10. Pan American National Bank, Union City, New Jersey

March 18; 1983

9,900

31.3

11. Prairie County Bank, Hazen, Arkansas

March 24,1983

3,062

15.5

12. Bear Creek Valley Bank, Phoenix, Oregon

March 25,1983

1,973

10.9

13. The Ina State Bank, Ina, Illinois

April 8,1983

4,627

15.9

14. Bank of San Marino, San Marino, California

April 8,1983

2,248

12.7

15. Sparta-Sanders State Bank, Sparta, Kentucky

April 15, 1983

769

118.3

16. Heritage Bank, Ashland, Oregon

April 29, 1983

3,342

14.6

17. First National Bank of O ak Lawn, Oak Lawn, Illinois

A pril 29, 1983

25,172

119.4

18. Smith County Bank, Carthage, Tennessee

May 6,1983

5,118

27.2

19. City and County Bank of Knox County, Knoxville, Tennessee

May 27,1983

32,016

227.5

20. United Southern Bank of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee

May 27,1983

14,880

96.3

21. United American Bank in Hamilton County, Chattanooga, Tennessee

May 27,1983

48,248

106.0

22. City and County Bank of Roane County, Kingston, Tennessee

May 27,1983

7,000

36.5

23. City and County Bank of Anderson County, Lake City, Tennessee

May 27, 1983

5,871

139.6

24. The Commercial Bank of California, Los Angeles, California

May 27, 1983

5,158

23.1

25. Community Bank, Hartford, South Dakota

June 17,1983

8,355

39.3

26. Western National Bank of Lovell, Lovell, Wyoming

June 24, 1983

2,300

17.4

27. Mineral Bank of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada

June 30, 1983

1,639

10.5

28. Union National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

July 8,1983

13,441

24.5

29. The First Central Bank, Smithville, Tennessee

July 8,1983

3,222

18.2

30. Bank of Niobrara, Niobrara, Nebraska

July 8,1983

773

6.2

31. First Peoples Bank of Washington County, Johnson City, Tennessee

July 29, 1983

20,334

176.5

32. Metro Bank, Midland, Texas

July 29,1983

33. Oregon Mutual Savings Bank, Portland, Oregon

August 5, 1983

34. The First National Bank of Danvers, Danvers, Illinois

August 5, 1983

2,560

10.8

35. First Commerce Bank of Hawkins County, Rogersville, Tennessee

August 12,1983

8,821

43.7

2,500

28.8

47,745

251.3

36. United Southern Bank of Clarksville, Clarksville, Tennessee

August 26,1983

3,666

10.4

37. The Douglass State Bank, Kansas City, Kansas

September 2,1983

7,200

26.5

38. Warren County Bank, McMinnville, Tennessee

September 16, 1983

4,019

18.8

39. Dominion Bank of Denver, Denver, Colorado

September 30, 1983

2,653

11.9

40. National Bank of Odessa, Odessa, Texas

September 30, 1983

41. Auburn Savings Bank, Auburn, New York

October 1,1983

19,527
38,014

131.4

42. The Deschutes Bank, Redmond, Oregon

October 7,1983

2,800

9.2

43. The First National Bank of M idland, Midland, Texas

October 14, 1983

76,400

574.2

44. First National Bank of Browning, Browning, Montana

November 10, 1983

4,000

11.6

45. Atkinson Trust and Savings Bank, Atkinson, Illinois

November 25,1983

3,929

18.9

46. Union Trust Company, San Juan, Puerto Rico

December 9,1983

1,267

23.3

47. Bank of Hackleburg, Hackleburg, Alabama

December 13,1983

2,005

6.8

48. The Bank of Red Oak, Red Oak, Oklahoma

December 16, 1983

3,514

10.4




76.2

11

In the 16 months prior to the failure, the
bank experienced substantial losses on
energy-related loans. Widespread publicity
about the bank's losses eroded public
confidence and the bank's deposit and
funding sources withdrew. As a result, First
National becam e unable to meet its
obligations as they matured.
Two days prior to the closing of First
National, the FDIC stabilized the situation by
purchasing a $100 million subordinated note
from the bank under FDIC's authority to
make loans or contributions to an insured
bank in danger of closing to allow time for
the bank to be merged with a sound
institution.
The deposit assumption of First National
was the second time the FDIC used a
provision of the Garn-St Germain Act to
solicit bids across state lines.

Deposit Transfers
In 1983, the FDIC first used the procedure
of making the insured deposits in a failed
bank available to their owners by transferring
their accounts to a healthy institution instead
of directly paying depositors up to the
insured limit. The Corporation used this
approach in two failures. On July 8, the
insured deposits of Union National Bank of
Chicago were transferred to Seaway
National Bank. On November 22, the FDIC
transferred the insured deposits of the
Atkinson Trust & Savings Bank, Atkinson, Illinois,
to Bank of Atkinson, N. A., a newly-chartered
subsidiary of Farmers National Bancorp Inc.,
Geneseo, Illinois.
In both transfers, all insured deposits were
immediately m ade available to their owners,
checks drawn on those accounts were
honored and customers who had interestbearing accounts in the closed banks
continued to earn interest according to the
terms of their deposit contracts. The Atkinson
transfer had another unusual feature. The
acquiring bank paid a purchase premium of
$1.5 million for the right to serve as the
paying agent.
Payment of insured deposits through the
transfer of accounts to another insured bank
minimized disruption to the closed banks'
customers and to the affected communities.
The procedure also reduced the FDIC's costs
in handling the failures.
12



/MUTUAL
S41/IN G S
B4NKS
The magnitude of the mutual savings bank
problem was greatly diminished in 1983, due
to the improving economy and the decline
in interest rates from 1982's record levels.
Only three insured savings banks failed in
1983, at an estimated cost to the FDIC of
about $47 million. By comparison, eight
savings bank failures in 1982 resulted in an
estimated cost of $1.01 billion.
The FDIC assisted the merger in New York
City of Dry Dock Savings Bank into The Dollar
Savings Bank under terms of the "voluntary
merger plan" announced in 1982. The
estimated present value cost of the
transaction to the FDIC, over a 10-year
period, is $32 million. The resulting institution
has com bined assets exceeding $5 billion.
In Oregon, a change in state law m ade
possible the conversion of Oregon Mutual
Savings Bank into a stock-form state
chartered bank and its subsequent
acquisition by Moore Financial Group, Inc.,
Boise, Idaho. FDIC assistance consisted of a
cash payment of $11.8 million.
In the third assisted merger, Auburn
Savings Bank, Auburn, New York, was
absorbed by Syracuse Savings Bank. The cost
of the FDIC assistance was $2.9 million.
The FDIC's net worth certificate program,
available to depository institutions that have
suffered earnings and capital losses primarily
as a result of m ortgage lending activities,
has been useful in assisting mutual savings
bank. The Garn-St Germain Depository
Institutions Act of 1982 authorized the FDIC to
assist any qualified institution by making
periodic purchases of capital instruments in
the form of net worth certificates.
At the time that net worth certificates are
purchased, the FDIC issues its promissory
note in exchange for the institution's net
worth certificate. For purposes of regulatory
reporting, the FDIC's note is reflected as an
"other asset" of the institution and its liability
under the net worth certificate is reflected as
a segregation of capital. At year end 1983,
23 depository institutions had net worth
certificates outstanding totaling $376.8
million. This program will expire October 15,
1985, unless renewed by Congress.

In the auction ring, handler
Kenneth Murry shows Hop Skip
and Jump, a brown mare that
becam e FDIC property as a result
of the failure of Penn Square Bank.
Eighty race horses included in the
receivership assets of Penn Square
were offered for sale at the
February 1983 auction.

LIQUIDATION
ACTIVITIES
With 48 bank failures in 1983, the Division
of Liquidation acquired an unprecedented
number of assets for liquidation, bringing its
total workload to 65,000 assets with a book
value of $4.3 billion in 170 liquidations.
The 48 failures included several large and
complex liquidations, such as those
stemming from the closings of First National
Bank of Midland and twelve banks in
Tennessee, to which the FDIC committed
hundreds of employees.
To handle its increased workload, the
Division instituted new procedures and
expanded its staff, The consolidation of some
of its local field offices and the establishment
in 1983 of five Area Liquidation Offices with
substantial delegated authority have
increased the efficiency of the Division. The
number of new liquidation personnel more
than doubled in the last year, and the FDIC's
liquidation support staffs in the legal and
accounting areas have been increased as
well.
The new area office framework represents
a significant restructuring of the Division's
m anagem ent approach. Prior to 1983,
individual bank liquidations were conducted
at each site by the liquidators-in-charge, with
minimal supervision from Washington. With
the advent of the area office concept, field



liquidations now are supervised by the staffs
of the area offices who are closer to the
scene and more attuned to regional
econom ic conditions than the headquarters
staff, In addition, a substantial number of
older and smaller liquidations were
consolidated into the area offices to allow
greater managerial control of collection
activities and to realize the economies of
scale that result from a larger operation,
Another step was the creation of several
sub-area offices to deal with heavy
concentrations of liquidations in Tennessee
and Southern California. The Division also
revised its Washington m anagem ent
structure in 1983 by creating three Associate
Director positions to m anage operations,
credit and administration. Finally, individuals
with strong backgrounds in other areas of
FDIC operations were brought into the
Division in key positions, resulting in a cross
fertilization of experience, ideas and skills.
These changes have enabled the Division
to gain greater and more effective control
over a substantially enlarged workload and
have facilitated the Division's policy of
accelerating its collection activities through
the adoption of new and innovative
liquidation techniques.
13

Penn Square Bank, NA.

Payments to Depositors

A major continuing liquidation involves the
Penn Square Bank, N. A., of Oklahoma City,
which failed July 5,1982, resulting in the
largest deposit payoff in FDIC history. Of the
Bank's $465 million in deposits, only about
$200 million were insured and immediately
available to their owners. The FDIC
established a Deposit Insurance National
Bank (DINB) for the purpose of paying
insured deposits.
The FDIC determined in June 1983 that
depositors in Penn Square may recover only
up to 65 percent of deposits that exceeded
the insurance limit. This estimate is subject to
revision depending on future collections
from the liquidation of Penn Square assets
and the outcome of a large number of legal
actions.
As of the end of 1983, the FDIC had
collected $500,4 million in principal and
interest on loans, securities and other assets.
Out of the total, $235.1 million was paid to
the holders of loan participations sold by
Penn Square, $5.7 million repaid secured
advances from the Federal Reserve to Penn
Square, $16.9 million was paid to owners of
pledged deposits and approximately $87.6
million was paid to uninsured depositors and
other creditors holding Receiver's Certificates
for proven claims. The FDIC invested excess
collections in Treasury bills totalling
approximately $133.6 million.
The remaining amount due on proven
claims totaled about $347.3 million. The FDIC
agreed to set aside about $442.1 million in
reserve for those claims pending the
outcome of related litigation. Remaining
assets to be liquidated at the end of 1983
amounted to about $282.4 million, exclusive
of the $133.6 million invested in Treasury bills.
On August 18, the FDIC signed an
agreement with Charter National Bank, N. A.,
a newly-chartered bank, providing that
Charter National purchase the remaining
$458,400 in deposits from the DINB and
operate from Penn Square's former motor
bank, Subsequently, $138,200 owned by
depositors who could not be contacted was
returned to the FDIC.

Of the 668 banks that failed since the
FDIC's inception in 1934, 340 were deposit
assumption cases and 328 were deposit
payoffs. All the accounts in the deposit
assumption cases, with insured and
noninsured deposits aggregating $24.2
billion, were fully protected.
In the deposit payoffs, 85.5 percent of the
$1.1 billion in deposits have been paid or
m ade available, and full recovery has been
paid or m ade available to 99.1 percent of
the depositors, In comparison, through the
end of 1982, 79,6 percent of the deposits
had been paid or m ade available, with full
recovery received by or m ade available to
98.4 percent of the depositors. The increase
in the historical recovery rate is due to the
payment in 1983 of a 20 percent dividend to
uninsured depositors of the Penn Square
Bank and an overall 96 percent recovery
rate for depositors in payoff cases closed in
1983.
There were 6.8 million accounts in the
deposit assumption cases and .7 million in
the payoff cases closed since January 1,
1934, with deposits aggregating more than
$25 billion.
Total disbursements by the FDIC since
January 1,1934, amounted to $11.5 billion. Of
that amount, the FDIC recovered $8.8 billion
and lost $2.7 billion.

14



IN C O M E
AND
EXPENSES
Revenues and the deposit insurance fund
continued to increase during 1983 although
the high bank failure rate created large
expenses for the FDIC. The fund attained a
new year-end high of $15.4 billion, an
increase of $1.6 billion or 12.0 percent over
1982. Gross revenues for the year amounted
to $2.6 billion, including $1,4 billion from
investments in U.S. Treasury obligations and
$1.2 billion from assessments on insured
banks, interest bn notes receivable and
other sources.
The average maturity of the Corporation's
investment portfolio during 1983 remained at
two years and nine months as it had been
during 1982, although 35 percent of the
portfolio had maturities of under two years.
The par value of the portfolio increased from
$13.2 billion on December 31,1982, to $13.8
billion at year-end 1983. Its market value
grew from $13.3 billion to $13.7 billion during
the same period.
The FDIC's total expenses and losses in
closed banks and merger activities during
1983 was $834 million. Its administrative
expenses were $136 million, an increase of
4.4 percent over 1982, following an increase
of only 2.2% the previous year. The total
gross expenses and losses for the year was
$970 million. This was the fifth consecutive
year in which the FDIC held its expenditure
rate increase below both the rate of inflation
and the increased cost of the federal
government.




The FDIC gives insured banks a credit
against their next year's assessments for
insurance coverage, depending on the
FDIC's losses and expenses for the year. The
losses and expenses sustained by FDIC in
1983 resulted in an assessment credit of $164
million, com pared to $96 million in 1982. The
1983 credit represents an effective
assessment rate to banks of 1/m of one
percent of assessable deposits, com pared to
Vi3 of one percent in 1982. The 1983
assessment credit represents 13.54 percent
of total assessments com pared to 8.68
percent in 1982,
(The FDIC's complete 1983 financial
statements with footnotes begin on page 18.
The U.S. Comptroller General's audit opinion of
the FDIC's financial statements is on page 29.)

15

Personnel
The FDIC ended 1983 with 3,846
employees, or 342 more employees than at
the end of 1982. Most of this gain involved
temporary employment in the Liquidation
Division hired to cope with the increased
number of bank closings during 1983. About
53 percent of the FDIC's employees are
assigned to the Division of Bank Supervision.
About 92 percent of DBS employees are
field examiners.
The 1983 turnover rate for field examiners
was 6.0 percent, com pared to 7.0 percent
for 1982. Of the 97 examiners who resigned
during the year, 28 found employment with
banks. For all employees, exclusive of
temporary field personnel, college students
in the FDIC's cooperative work-study
program and temporary summer personnel,
the turnover rate was 7.0 percent, com pared
to 7.8 percent in the previous year, Position
vacancy announcements issued in 1983
numbered 331.

Number of Officials and Employees of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation December 31, 1982
and 1983
WASHINGTON REGIONAL &
OFFICE
FIELD OFFICES

TOTAL

TOTAL
Executive Offices
Legal Division
Division of Research
an d Strategic
Planning
Division o f Liquidation*
Division o f Bank
Supervision
Division of Accounting
and Corporate
Services
Office o f Corporate
Audits
Office of Equal
Opportunity
Office o f Personnel
M anagem ent

1983

1982

1983

1982

1983

1982

3846
46
103

3504
47
105

968
46
103

933
47
105

2878
0
0

2571
0
0

29
1153

28
778

29
170

28
185

0
983

0
593

2053

2129

158

151

1895

1978

379

347

379

347

0

0

38

29

38

29

0

0

6

6

6

6

0

0

39

35

39

35

0

0

'Division of Liquidation totals incluae tem porary employees, most of
whom were em ployed by failed banks, assigned to field liquidations.

16



John T. Washington, a Supervisory Computer
Operator in the Division of Accounting and
Corporate Services, checks one of the many
FDIC com puter programs.

Computer Operator Vaughn Johnson
loads a tape for Coquesse Matthews,
also a Computer Operator (back­
ground) and Senior Computer Opera­
tor Gladys Coates to review. They work
with the Amdahl mainframe computer
in the FDIC headquarters building.




Instructor Jeffrey Perry works with students in
the School for Assistant Examiners at the
FDIC's Training Center in Rosslyn, Virginia.

17

C o m p ara tive
Statem ent of
Financial Position

(In th o u s a n d s )

Assets

D ecem b er 31,
1983

D e c e m b e r 31,
1982

C as h

$

$

8 8 ,7 8 5

1 ,3 3 5

In v e s tm e n t in U .S . T re a s u ry o b lig a tio n s
1 3 ,9 9 2 ,0 5 9

1 3 ,2 5 2 ,3 6 5

3 7 0 ,6 4 2

3 3 9 ,2 8 1

O t h e r re c e iv a b le s a n d p r e p a id ite m s (N o te 3)

2 2 ,4 3 8

9 ,7 9 3

N o te s re c e iv a b le fro m in s u re d b a n k s (N o te 4)

4 2 3 ,6 4 1

7 0 5 ,2 6 2

413,748
7,048
2,494,059
386,917
1,290,820

320,216
9,547
616,964
401,563
631,632

2 ,0 1 0 ,9 5 2

7 1 6 ,6 5 8

4 ,0 1 4

4 ,0 1 4

3 2 ,9 5 5

3 0 ,1 3 9

$ 1 6 ,9 4 5 ,4 8 6

$ 1 5 ,0 5 8 ,8 4 7

(N o te 1)

A c c ru e d in te re s t re c e iv a b le (N o te 2)

A ssets a c q u ire d fro m fa ilu re s o f in s u re d b a n k s :
D e p o s ito rs ' claim s p a id
D e p o s ito rs ' claim s u n p a id
Loans a nd assets p urcha sed
Assets p urcha sed o u trig h t
Less: A llo w a n c e fo r losses (N o te 5)

T o ta l

Land

O ffic e b u ild in g s , less a c c u m u la te d
d e p r e c ia tio n o n b u ild in g s
T o ta l A ssets

The a c c o m p a n y in g sum m ary o f s ig n ific a n t a c c o u n tin g p o lic ie s a nd notes to fin a n c ia l statem ents a re an
in te g ra l p a rt o f these statem ents.

18



Liabilities a n d the
D eposit Insurance Fund
A c c o u n ts p a y a b le a n d a c c ru e d lia b ilitie s

D ecem b er 31,
1983

$

3 6 ,9 6 0

D ecem b er 31,
1982

$

5 6 ,7 6 2

C o lle c tio n s h e ld fo r o th e rs

5 ,4 6 5

2 ,4 5 3

A c c ru e d a n n u a l le a v e o f e m p lo y e e s

7 ,1 4 3

6 ,9 3 5

1 8 ,7 8 9

1 9 ,2 1 4

0
164.039

96.181
0

1 6 4 .0 3 9

9 6 .1 8 1

1 1 ,2 2 4

1 2 ,2 8 2

811,666
242,293
192,756
7,048

293,333
511,601
276,595
9,547

1 ,2 5 3 ,7 6 3

1 ,0 9 1 ,0 7 6

1 8 ,9 2 3

3 ,0 0 0

1 ,5 1 6 ,3 0 6

1 ,2 8 7 ,9 0 3

1 5 ,4 2 9 ,1 8 0

1 3 ,7 7 0 ,9 4 4

$ 1 6 ,9 4 5 ,4 8 6

$ 1 5 ,0 5 8 ,8 4 7

A c c ru e d in te re s t p a y a b le (N o te 6)
D u e in su re d b a n k s :
N et assessm ent incom e credits:
A v a ila b le July 1, 1983 (N o te 7)
A v a ila b le July 1, 1984 (N o te 7)

T o ta l
F S tre e t p r o p e rty n o te s (N o te 8)
L ia b ilitie s in c u rre d fro m fa ilu re s o f
in su red b a n k s :
FRB & FHLB ind eb te dn ess (N o te 9)
N otes p a y a b le (N o te 9)
Incom e m ainten an ce agree m e nts (N o te 10)
D e p o s ito rs ' claim s u n p a id

T o ta l
E s tim a te d losses fro m C o r p o r a tio n litig a tio n (N o te 11)
T o ta l L ia b ilitie s
D e p o s it In s u ra n c e Fund
T o ta l L ia b ilitie s a n d th e D e p o s it In s u ra n c e Fund

The a c c o m p a n y in g su m m ary o f s ig n ific a n t a cco u n tin g p o lic ie s and notes to fin a n c ia l statem ents a re an
in te g ra l p a rt o f these statem ents.




19

C o m p ara tive
S tatem ent of Incom e
a n d the Deposit Insurance Fund

(In th o u s a n d s )

For the tw e lv e m onths end ed
D ecem ber 31,
1983

D ecem ber 31,
1982

$ 1,215,817
164,903

$ 1,109,288
96,553

1 ,0 5 0 ,9 1 4

1 ,0 1 2 ,7 3 5

1,344,364
59,961

1,116,216
253,750

1 ,4 0 4 ,3 2 5

1 ,3 6 9 ,9 6 6

Interest e a rn e d on notes re ce iv a b le

6 5 ,0 6 5

7 9 ,0 2 9

Interest rece ive d on assets in liq u id a tio n

8 3 ,7 6 2

5 3 ,8 8 8

O th e r incom e

2 4 ,0 4 9

8 ,8 6 9

2 ,6 2 8 ,1 1 5

2 ,5 2 4 ,4 8 7

A d m in is tra tiv e o p e ra tin g expenses
M e rg e r assistance losses a nd expenses
P rovision fo r insurance losses
Interest expense on FRB indebtedness
N o n re c o v e ra b le insu ra n ce expenses

135,660
127,486
675,119
25,211
6,403

129,927
680,980
126,436
54,178
8,162

T o ta l Expenses a n d Losses

9 6 9 ,8 7 9

9 9 9 ,6 8 3

1 ,6 5 8 ,2 3 6

1 ,5 2 4 ,8 0 4

1 3 ,7 7 0 ,9 4 4

1 2 ,2 4 6 ,1 4 0

$ 1 5 ,4 2 9 ,1 8 0

$ 1 3 ,7 7 0 ,9 4 4

In c o m e :
G ro ss assessments e arn e d
Less: P rovision fo r assessm ent credits

T o ta l
Interest on U.S. T re a sury o b lig a tio n s
A m o rtiz a tio n o f p re m iu m s a nd discounts

T o ta l

T o ta l In c o m e
E xpenses a n d Losses:

N e t In c o m e
D e p o s it In s u ra n c e F u n d — J a n u a ry 1
D e p o s it In s u ra n c e F u n d — D e c e m b e r 31

The a c c o m p a n y in g sum m ary o f s ig n ific a n t a c c o u n tin g p o lic ie s and notes to fin a n c ia l statem ents a re an
in te g ra l p a rt o f these statem ents.

20



C o m p arative
S tatem ent of C hanges
in Financial Position (in thousands)
For the tw e lv e m onths ended
D ecem ber 31,
1983

D ecem ber 31,
1982

$1,658,236

$1,524,804

F in a n c ia l R eso u rces W e r e P ro v id e d F ro m :
O p e ra tio n s :
N e t incom e
A d d (deduct) items not in v o lv in g cash
in the p e rio d :
A m o rtiz a tio n on U.S. Tre a sury o b lig a tio n s
D e p re c ia tio n
Incom e m ainten an ce a g re e m e n t adjustm ents
A m o rtiz a tio n fro m m e rg e r assistance a greem ents
A llo w a n c e fo r loss adjustm ents

R eso u rces p r o v id e d fro m o p e ra tio n s
O th e r resources p ro v id e d fro m :
M a tu rity on U.S. T reasury o b lig a tio n s
C o lle c tio n s on notes re c e iv a b le
C o lle c tio n s on assets a c q u ire d fro m fa ilu re s
o f insured banks
Increase (decrease) in assessm ent cred its due
insured banks
L ia b ilitie s in cu rre d fro m fa ilu re s o f insured banks

T o ta l fin a n c ia l re s o u rc e s p ro v id e d

(59,961)
897
1,418
51,315
675,119

(253,750)
493
(436,855)
93,751
126,436

2 ,3 2 7 ,0 2 4

1 ,0 5 4 ,8 7 9

4,346,245
375,619

3,992,098
20,669

611,849

458,552

67,858
698,565

(32,691)
^ & 1 6 ;3 3 0

$ 8 ,4 2 7 ,1 6 0

$ 6 ,5 0 9 ,8 3 7

$5,025,978
218,998
2,442,851
3,713
432,357
154,800
61,013
87,450

$4,985,721
298,750
742,695
11,714
170,880
239,932
59,192
953

$ 8 ,4 2 7 ,1 6 0

$ 6 ,5 0 9 ,8 3 7

F in a n c ia l R eso u rc es W e r e A p p lie d T o :
Purchase o f U.S. T re a sury o b lig a tio n s
A c q u is itio n o f notes re c e iv a b le
Assets a c q u ire d fro m fa ilu re s o f insured banks
Purchase o f San F rancisco c o n d o m in iu m o ffice s
Payments on notes p a y a b le
Paym ents on inco m e m ainten an ce a greem ents
N e t ch a n g e in o th e r assets and lia b ilitie s
Increase in cash

T o ta l fin a n c ia l re s o u rc e s a p p lie d

The a c c o m p a n y in g su m m ary o f s ig n ific a n t a cco u n tin g p o lic ie s a nd notes to fin a n c ia l statem ents a re an
in te g ra l p a rt o f these statem ents.




21

Sum mary of
Significant
Accounting Policies
G e n e ra l
These statem ents d o not in clu d e a c c o u n ta b ility fo r assets and lia b ilitie s o f closed insured b an ks fo r
w h ich the C o rp o ra tio n acts as re ce ive r o r liq u id a tin g agent. P e rio d ic a nd fin a l a c c o u n ta b ility rep orts
o f its a ctivitie s as re ce ive r o r liq u id a tin g a g e n t a re fu rn ish e d by the C o rp o ra tio n to courts, su p e rv is o ry
a u th o ritie s , and others as re q u ire d .

U .S . T re a s u ry O b lig a tio n s
Securities a re show n a t a m o rtiz e d cost w hich is the purchase p ric e o f the se curitie s less the a m o rtiz e d
p re m iu m o r plus the a ccre te d d isco un t. Such a m o rtiz a tio n s and a c c re tio n s a re c o m p u te d on a d a ily
s tra ig h t-lin e basis fro m the d a te o f a c q u is itio n to the d a te o f m aturity.

D e p o s it In s u ra n c e A ssessm ents
The C o rp o ra tio n assesses insured ban ks a t the rate o f 1 /12 o f one p ercen t p e r y e a r on the b a n k 's
a v e ra g e d e p o s it lia b ility less ce rta in exclusions and d ed uctio ns. Assessm ents a re due in a d v a n c e fo r
each six-m onth p e rio d a nd c re d ite d to inco m e each m onth. The D e p o s ito ry Institutions D e re g u la tio n
and M o n e ta ry C o n tro l A c t o f 1980 ch an ge d the p e rc e n ta g e o f net assessm ent incom e to be tra n s fe rre d
to insured ban ks each July 1 o f the fo llo w in g c a le n d a r y e a r fro m 66 2 /3 p e rce n t to 60 p e rc e n t and
a u th o riz e d the FDIC B o ard o f D ire c to rs to m ake adjustm ents to this p e rc e n ta g e w ith in c e rta in lim its in
o rd e r to m a in ta in the D e p o sit Insurance Fund betw een 1.25 and 1.40 p ercen t o f e stim a ted insured
deposits. If this ra tio fa lls b e lo w 1.10 percen t o r a b o v e 1.40 p ercent, the FDIC is m a n d a te d to m ake
fu rth e r re d u ctio n s, up to 50 p e rcen t, o r increases to the p e rc e n ta g e d is trib u tio n o f net assessm ent
incom e.

A llo w a n c e fo r Losses
The C o rp o ra tio n e stablishes an e stim ated a llo w a n c e fo r loss a t the tim e a b a n k fa ils . These a llo w ­
ances a re re vie w e d e very six m onths a nd a dju ste d as re q u ire d , based on fin a n c ia l d e v e lo p m e n ts
w h ich o ccu r d u rin g each six-m onth p e rio d . The C o rp o ra tio n does not state its e stim a ted co n tin g e n t
lia b ility fo r u nkn ow n fu tu re b a n k closin gs because such estim ates a re im p o ssib le to m ake. The C o r­
p o ra tio n 's co n tin g e n t lia b ility fo r e ven tua l net losses dep en ds upon fa c to rs w hich c a n n o t be assessed
until o r a fte r a b a n k has a c tu a lly fa ile d . The C o rp o ra tio n 's e ntire D e p o s it Insurance Fund a nd b o r ­
ro w in g a u th o rity a re a v a ila b le , h o w e ve r, fo r such co ntingencies.

D e p re c ia tio n
The W a sh in g to n O ffic e B u ild in g s a re d e p re c ia te d on a s tra ig h t-lin e basis o v e r a 5 0 -y e a r e stim ated
life. The San F rancisco C o n d o m in iu m O ffic e s a re d e p re c ia te d on a s tra ig h t-lin e basis o v e r a 3 5 -y e a r
estim ated life. The cost o f fu rn itu re , fixtu re s , and e q u ip m e n t is expensed at tim e o f a c q u is itio n .

In c o m e M a in te n a n c e A g re e m e n ts
The C o rp o ra tio n re co rd s its lia b ility u n d e r an incom e m ainten an ce a g re e m e n t a t the p resent v a lu e o f
each e stim a ted cash o u tla y a t the tim e the a g re e m e n t is a ccep ted . Estim ated cash o utla ys a re a n tic i­
pated fu tu re paym ents the C o rp o ra tio n w ill p ro v id e to o ffs e t the d iffe re n c e betw een the a n n u a liz e d
cost o f funds and the a n n u a liz e d return on the d e c lin in g vo lu m e o f e a rn in g assets a c q u ire d in a
m e rg e r tra n s a c tio n , plus an a m o u n t to c o v e r o v e rh e a d costs. The c h a rg e is re c o rd e d to insu ra n ce loss.
The present v a lu e o f the lia b ility is then a ccre te d d a ily and re c o rd e d m on thly o v e r the term o f the
a gre e m e n t. A n y d iffe re n ce s betw een the estim ated and a ctua l cash o utla ys a re re c o rd e d a s 'p a y m e n t
adjustm ents. The p resent va lu e o f re m a in in g estim ated cash outla ys a re a lso re v ie w e d a nd a dju ste d
each y e a r w hen interest ra te changes o c c u rrin g in the m a rk e tp la c e a p p e a r m a te ria l o r p e rm a n e n t in
nature. The o rig in a lly re c o rd e d loss, plus o r minus any p aym en t and present v a lu e a djustm e nts, w ill
then be p ro ra te d b etw een insured ban ks and the D e p o sit Insurance Fund as p ro v id e d in Section 7(d)
o f the F ederal D e p o sit Insurance Act.

R e c la s s ific a tio n s
R ecla ssifica tion s have been m ade in the 1982 F in a n cia l Statem ents to c o n fo rm to the p re s e n ta tio n used
in 1983.

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Notes to
Financial Statem ents—
D e c e m b e r 31,1 983 a n d 1982
1. U .S . T re a s u ry O b lig a tio n s
A ll cash rece ive d by the C o rp o ra tio n w hich is not used to d e fra y o p e ra tin g expenses o r fo r outla ys
re la te d to assistance to ban ks and liq u id a tio n a ctiv itie s , is invested in U.S. T re a sury securities. As o f
D e ce m b e r 31, 1983 and 1982, the C o rp o ra tio n 's investm ent p o rtfo lio consisted o f the fo llo w in g :

D ecem ber 31, 1983
(In thousands)
M a t u r it y

D e s c r ip tio n

P a r V a lu e

B o o k V a lu e

M a r k e t V a lu e

Cost

1 Day

Special Treasury
C ertificates

Less than
1 Year

U.S.T. Bills
U.S.T. Notes and Bonds

450,000
1,469,500

414,189
1,472,021

414,220
1,470,695

412,104
1,507,118

1 -5 Years

U.S.T. N otes and Bonds

10,526,626

10,767,164

10,596,598

10,835,408

5 -1 0 Years

U.S.T. Notes a nd Bonds

855,546

854,354

779,366

852,837

$ 1 3 ,7 8 6 ,0 0 3

$ 1 3 ,9 9 2 ,0 5 9

$ 1 3 ,7 4 5 ,2 1 0

$ 1 4 ,0 9 1 ,7 9 8

T o ta l In v e s tm e n t

$

484,331

$

484,331

$

484,331

$

484,331

Decem ber 31, 1982
(In thousands)
M a t u r it y

D e s c r ip tio n

P a r V a lu e

B o o k V a lu e

M a r k e t V a lu e

Cost

1 Day

Special Treasury
C ertificates

Less than
1 Year

U.S.T. Bills
U.S.T. Notes a nd Bonds

1,975,000
1,606,200

1,876,300
1,607,446

1,895,998
1,616,458

1,765,458
1,613,593

1

649,376

$

649,376

$

649,376

$

649,376

1-5 Years

U.S.T. Notes and Bonds

7,106,126

7,232,759

7,363,982

7,274,441

5 -1 0 Years

U.S.T. Notes and Bonds

1,820,000

1,812,924

1,732,709

1 ,807,740

O v e r 10 Years

U.S.T. Bonds

75,546

73,560

62,255

71,806

$ 1 3 ,2 3 2 ,2 4 8

$ 1 3 ,2 5 2 ,3 6 5

$ 1 3 ,3 2 0 ,7 7 8

$ 1 3 ,1 8 2 ,4 1 4

T o ta l In v e s tm e n t




23

2. A c c ru e d In te re s t R e c e iv a b le
The C o rp o ra tio n 's o u tsta n d in g a ccru e d interest re c e iv a b le b ala n ce s as o f D e c e m b e r 3 1 ,1 9 8 3 a nd 1982 are
as fo llo w s :
1983

1982

In v e s tm e n t in U .S .T . O b lig a t io n s :
1-D ay Special T reasury C ertificates
U.S.T. Notes and Bonds

$

128,000
361,684,000

$

183,000
306,933,000

N o te s R e c e iv a b le fr o m In s u re d B a n k s :
To Assist O p e ra tin g Banks
To F acilitate M e rg e r Agreem ents
To F acilitate D e posit Assum ptions
T o ta l

0
5,935,000
2,895,000

12,001,000
18,790,000
1,374,000

S 3 7 0 ,6 4 2 ,0 0 0

$ 3 3 9 ,2 8 1 ,0 0 0

3 . O t h e r R e c e iv a b le s a n d P re p a id Ite m s
The C o rp o ra tio n 's o th e r re ce iva b le s a nd p re p a id items a t D e ce m b e r 31, 1983 a nd 1982 a re :
1983
O th e r Receivables
Prepaid Items
T o ta l

1982

$21,931,000
507,000

$9,693,000
100,000

S 2 2 ,4 3 8 ,0 0 0

$ 9 ,7 9 3 ,0 0 0

4 . N o te s R e c e iv a b le fro m In s u re d B anks
The C o rp o ra tio n 's o u tsta n d in g p rin c ip a l b ala n ce s on notes re c e iv a b le fro m insured ban ks a t D e c e m b e r 31,
1983 a nd 1982 a re :
1983

1982

T o A s s is t O p e r a t in g B a n k s :
Bank o f the C om m onw ealth
First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A.

$ 27,000,000
0

I 30,000,000
325,000,000

0
216,250,000
50,000,000
9,398,000

30,000,000
216,250,000
50,000,000
2,500,000

3,750,000
25,000,000
2,500,000
143,000
36,000,000
51,100,000
2,500,000

5,000,000
40,000,000
3,000,000
179,000
0
0
3,333,000

S 4 2 3 ,6 4 1 ,0 0 0

$ 7 0 5 ,2 6 2 ,0 0 0

T o F a c ilita te M e r g e r A g r e e m e n ts :
First Interstate Bank o f W ash in g ton , N.A.
P h ila d e lp h ia Saving Fund Society
A b ile n e N a tio n a l Bank
Syracuse Savings Bank
T o F a c ilita te D e p o s it A s s u m p tio n s :
Bank Leumi Trust C om pany o f N e w Y ork
E u ro pean-A m erican Bancorp.
D rovers Bank o f C h ica g o
T ow n -C o u n try N a tio n a l Bank
First Tennessee N a tio n a l C o rp o ra tio n
RepublicBank C o rp o ra tio n
First Com m erce C o rp o ra tio n
T o ta l

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5. A llo w a n c e fo r Losses - A ssets in L iq u id a tio n
An a na lysis o f the changes in the e stim ated a llo w a n c e fo r losses on assets in liq u id a tio n a re d e s c rib e d
b e lo w by a cco u n t g ro u p s fo r the years e nd ed D e ce m b e r 31, 1983 and 1982:
1983
D e p o sito rs' claim s p a id :
Balance, be g in ning o f p e rio d
A d d (Subtract):
Provision ch a rg e d to expense
N et adjustm ent to p rio r years
W rite -o ff at term in a tio n
Balance, end o f p e rio d
Loans and assets purchased:
Balance, beg in ning o f p e rio d
A d d (Subtract):
Provision ch a rg e d to expense
N et adjustm ent to p rio r years
W rite -o ff at term in a tio n
Balance, end o f p e rio d
Assets purchased o u trig h t:
Balance, b e g in ning o f p e rio d
A d d (Subtract):
Provision ch a rg e d to expense
N et adjustm ent to p rio r years
W rite -o ff a t term in a tio n
Balance, end o f p e rio d
T o ta l

$

58,352,000

1982
$ 11,285,000
48,009,000
(592.000)
(350.000)

18.334.000
99.046.000
0
175,732,000

58,352,000

213.536.000

154,114,000

518.404.000
(4,590,000)
0

65,185,000
(5,106,000)
(657,000)

727,350,000

213,536,000

359,744,000

344,846,000

0
27,994,000
0

21,464,000
(6,566,000)
0

387,738,000

359,744,000

$ 1 ,2 9 0 ,8 2 0 ,0 0 0

$ 6 3 1 ,6 3 2 ,0 0 0

6 . A c c ru e d In te re s t P a y a b le
The C o rp o ra tio n 's o u tsta n d in g a ccru e d interest p a y a b le b alan ces as o f D e ce m b e r 3 1 ,1 9 8 3 and 1982 a re as
fo llo w s :
1983
F Street Property Notes
Federal Reserve Bank Notes
Federal Hom e Loan Bank Notes
F ranklin B uildings, Inc. Notes
M e rg e r Assistance Notes
T o ta l




$

320,000

1982
$

375,000

15,830,000
0

3,890,000
82,000

72,000

88,000

2,567,000

14,779,000

$ 1 8 ,7 8 9 ,0 0 0

$ 1 9 ,2 1 4 ,0 0 0

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7 . A ss es sm en t C re d its D u e In s u re d B anks
C o n tin g e n t upon a le g is la tiv e ly sp e c ifie d ra tio o f the C o rp o ra tio n 's D e p o s it Insurance Fund to e sti­
m ated insured b a n k d ep o sits, the C o rp o ra tio n cred its a le g is la tiv e ly a u th o riz e d p e rc e n ta g e (cu rre n tly
60 percent) o f its net assessm ent incom e to insured banks. This c re d it is d is trib u te d , p ro -ra ta , to each
insured b a n k as a re d u ctio n o f the fo llo w in g y e a r's assessment. N e t assessm ent inco m e is d e te rm in e d
by gross assessm ents less a d m in is tra tiv e o p e ra tin g expenses and expenses and losses re la te d to in ­
surance o p e ra tio n s .
The G a rn -S t G e rm a in D e p o s ito ry Institutions A c t o f 1982, a m e n d e d Section 7(d)(1) o f the F ed era l D e ­
p o sit Insurance A ct a nd a u th o riz e d the C o rp o ra tio n to in clu d e c e rta in le n d in g costs in the c o m p u ta tio n
o f the net assessm ent incom e. The le n d in g costs a re the a m ounts by w h ich the a m o u n t o f interest
e arn e d on each loa n m ad e by the C o rp o ra tio n u n d e r Section 13 o f the F ed era l D e p o s it Insurance A ct
a fte r Ja n u a ry 1, 1982, is less than the a m o u n t o f interest the C o rp o ra tio n w o u ld have e a rn e d fo r the
c a le n d a r y e a r if interest had been p a id on the loans a t a rate e q u a l to the a v e ra g e c u rre n t v a lu e o f
funds to the U nite d States T reasury fo r the c a le n d a r year.
The c o m p u ta tio n a nd d is trib u tio n o f net assessm ent incom e cred its fo r c a le n d a r y e a r 1983 a nd 1982
a re as fo llo w s :
1 9 8 3 N e t A s s e s s m e n t In c o m e C re d its D u e In s u re d B a n k s - J u ly 1, 1 9 8 4
C om putation:
G ross Assessment Income - C.Y. 1983
Less: A d m in istra tive O p e ra tin g Expenses
M e rg e r Assistance Losses and Expenses
less A m o rtiza tio n and A ccretion
Provision fo r Insurance Losses
N o n re co ve ra b le Insurance Expenses
Lending Costs

$1,211,440,000
$135,660,000
90,123,000
675,119,000
31,426,000
8,640,000

N et Assessment Income

940,968,000
$

270,472,000

$

270,472,000

Assessment C re d it Due Insured Banks:
Assessment C re d it - C.Y. 1983
Assessment C redits - Prior Years

$

162,283,000
1,756,000

T otal C redits Due, July 1, 1984

$

164,039,000

D istrib u tion :
40% to the D e posit Insurance Fund
60% to Insured Banks

$108,189,000
162,283,000

Effective Rate o f Assessment fo r C.Y. 1983: 1/14 o f 1% o f T otal Assessable D eposits
Percent o f T otal C redits Due Insured Banks: 13.54086% o f G ross Assessments
1 9 8 2 N e t A s s e s s m e n t In c o m e C re d its D u e In s u re d B a n k s - J u ly 1, 1 9 8 3
C om putation:
G ross Assessment Income - C.Y. 1982
Less: A d m in istra tive O p e ra tin g Expenses
M e rg e r Assistance Losses and Expenses
less A m o rtiza tio n and A ccretion
Provision fo r Insurance Losses
N o n re c o v e ra b le Insurance Expenses
Lending Costs

$1,108,254,000
$129,927,000
628,562)000
126,436,000
61,881,000
1,560,000

N et Assessment Income

948,366,000
$

159,888,000

$

159,888,000

Assessment C re d it Due Insured Banks:
Assessment C re d it - C.Y. 1982
Assessment C redits - P rior Years

$

95,933,000
248,000

T ota l C redits Due, July 1, 1983

$

96,181,000

D istrib u tion :
40% to the D e posit Insurance Fund
60% to Insured Banks

$ 63,955,000
95,933,000

Effective Rate o f Assessment to r C.Y. 1982: 1/13 o f 1% o f T otal Assessable Deposits
Percent o f T otal C redits Due Insured Banks: 8.67859% o f G ross Assessments

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8 . F S tre e t P ro p e rty N o te s
The C o rp o ra tio n 's o u tsta n d in g p rin c ip a l b a la n c e on F Street p ro p e rty notes as o f D e c e m b e r 31, 1983
and 1982 a re as fo llo w s :
1983
N e w Y o rk State C om m on Retirem ent Fund
1776 F Street Associates " a g e neral
p a rtn e rship in d is so lu tio n "
T o ta l

1982

$ 6,224,000

$ 6,282,000

5,000,000

6,000,000

5 1 1 ,2 2 4 ,0 0 0

$ 1 2 ,2 8 2 ,0 0 0

9. L ia b ilitie s In c u rre d fro m F a ilu re s o f In s u re d B anks
The C o rp o ra tio n 's o u tsta n d in g p rin c ip a l b alan ces on lia b ilitie s in cu rre d fro m fa ilu re s o f insured banks
as o f D ece m b e r 31, 1983 a nd 1982 a re as fo llo w s :
1983
Federal Reserve Bank o f N e w York
Federal Reserve Bank o f D a lla s

S

1982

142,666,000
664,000,000

$285,333,000
0

Federal H om e Loan Bank o f N ew York

5,000,000

8,000,000

F ranklin Buildings, Inc.

5,038,000

6,156,000

21,023,000
24,000,000
192,232,000
0
0

22,364,000
28,000,000
204,956,000
220,125,000
30,000,000

$ 1 ,0 5 3 ,9 5 9 ,0 0 0

$ 8 0 4 ,9 3 4 ,0 0 0

First Interstate Bank o f W a shington, N.A.
Hudson City Savings Bank
G o ld o m e FSB
P h ila d e lp h ia Saving Fund Society
A m e rican Savings Bank
T o ta l

10. In c o m e M a in te n a n c e A g re e m e n ts
The incom e m ainten an ce agree m e nts, in c lu d in g am ounts to co ve r o ve rh e a d costs, a re c la s s ifie d and
presented on the fin a n c ia l statem ents a t the present v a lu e o f a n tic ip a te d fu tu re paym ents. The C o r­
p o ra tio n 's o u tsta n d in g lia b ility b ala n ce s o f a n tic ip a te d fu tu re paym ents a t p resent v a lu e w ith o p e ra tin g
insured ban ks as o f D e ce m b e r 31, 1983 and 1982 a re as fo llo w s :
1983
M e tro p o lita n Savings Bank
A p p le Bank fo r Savings
M a rq u e tte N a tio n a l Bank
First Interstate Bank o f W ashington, N .A .
G o ld o m e FSB
P h ila d e lp h ia Saving Fund Society
D o lla r Dry D o ck Savings Bank
Syracuse Savings Bank
T o ta l

1982

$ 58,332,000
18,320,000
(15,021,000)
2,721,000
67,277,000
37,527,000
20,724,000
2,876,000

$ 73,358,000
23,643,000
3,078,000
2,974,000
128,023,000
45,519,000
0
0

$ 1 9 2 ,7 5 6 ,0 0 0

$ 2 7 6 ,5 9 5 ,0 0 0

11. E s tim a te d Losses F ro m C o rp o r a tio n L itig a tio n
Estim ated losses fro m C o rp o ra tio n litig a tio n d u rin g 1983 and 1982 a m o u n te d to $18,923,000 and
$3,000,000, resp ective ly. These am ounts rep re sen t estim ates fo r p o te n tia l losses in 6 o f 14 a nd 3 o f 10
le g a l action s in v o lv in g a to ta l o f a p p ro x im a te ly $49,562,000 and $44,835,000 o f claim s, c o u n te rc la im s ,
and p ossible in d e m n ity exposures a g a in s t the FDIC in its c o rp o ra te c a p a c ity as o f D e c e m b e r 31, 1983
and 1982, respectively.

12. L eas e C o m m itm e n ts
Rent fo r o ffic e prem ises c h a rg e d to expense w as $6,829,000 (1983) and $5,695,000 (1982). M in im u m
rentals fo r e a c lv o f the next five years and fo r subsequent years th e re a fte r a re as fo llo w s :
1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1 9 8 9 /t h e r e a f t e r

$7,068,000

$5,485,000

$3,999,000

$3,711,000

$2,210,000

$1,511,000

M o s t o ffic e pre m ise lease agree m e nts p ro v id e fo r increase in basic rentals re su ltin g fro m increased
p ro p e rty taxes and m ainten an ce expense.




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13 . R e tire m e n t P la n
A ll p e rm a n e n t, fu ll-tim e a nd p a rt-tim e e m p lo ye es o f the FDIC a re co ve re d by the c o n trib u to ry C iv il
Service R etirem ent Plan. The C o rp o ra tio n m akes b i-w e e k ly c o n trib u tio n s to the p la n e q u a l to the e m ­
p lo ye e 's b i-w e e k ly c o n trib u tio n s . The re tire m e n t p la n expenses in c u rre d fo r c a le n d a r ye ars 1983 a nd
1982 w e re $7,073,000 and $6,439,000 respectively.

1 4 . N e t W o r th C e r tific a te P ro g ra m
The net w o rth c e rtific a te p ro g ra m w a s e sta b lish e d a t the FDIC by a u th o riz a tio n o f the G a rn -S t G e r ­
m ain D e p o s ito ry Institutions A c t o f 1982. U n d e r this p ro g ra m , the C o rp o ra tio n w o u ld p urcha se a q u a l­
ifie d in stitu tio n 's net w o rth c e rtific a te , and in a n on-cash e xcha ng e, the C o rp o ra tio n w o u ld issue its
n o n -n e g o tia b le p ro m is s o ry note o f e q u a l v a lu e . The to ta l assistance o u ts ta n d in g to q u a lifie d in s ti­
tutions as o f D e ce m b e r 31, 1983 a nd 1982 is $376,866,000 and $174,529,000 re sp e ctive ly. The C o r­
p o ra tio n does n ot e xp e ct to in cu r a ny losses d ire c tly a ttrib u ta b le to such assistance.
In 1982, the C o rp o ra tio n p resented the net w o rth c e rtific a te s as an asset a nd the re la te d p ro m is s o ry
notes as a lia b ility on its S tatem ent o f F in a n cia l Position. As o f D e c e m b e r 31, 1983, the C o rp o ra tio n
c h a n g e d its m ethod o f p re se n ta tio n to re fle c t such tra n s a c tio n s in a fo o tn o te d is c lo s u re as d e s c rib e d
a b o v e . The C o rp o ra tio n believe s this tre a tm e n t is p re fe ra b le because it best re fle cts the tru e n atu re
a nd substance o f the p ro g ra m . This ch a n g e had no e ffe c t on the C o rp o ra tio n 's net incom e.

1 5 . S u b s e q u e n t Events
O n M a y 17, 1984, the FDIC, the F ed era l Reserve B o a rd , the C o m p tro lle r o f the C u rre n c y , a nd a g ro u p
o f 28 c o m m e rc ia l b an ks a rra n g e d an e m e rg e n cy assistance p a c k a g e to ta lin g $7.5 b illio n . This a s ­
sistance in c lu d e d a $5.5 b illio n unsecured line o f c re d it fro m the c o m m e rc ia l b a n ks, a nd a $2 b illio n
c a p ita l in je c tio n p a c k a g e fro m the FDIC a nd seven p a rtic ip a tin g c o m m e rc ia l b an ks. In a d d itio n , the
F ederal Reserve B o a rd g u a ra n te e d to m eet d a ily cash req uirem en ts, if a ny w e re n ee d e d , b e y o n d the
$7.5 b illio n co m m itm e nt. A t the present tim e, it is u n ce rta in w h a t FDIC assistance w ill u ltim a te ly result
a nd w h a t im p a c t such assistance w o u ld have on the D e p o s it Insurance Fund.

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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
W A S H IN G T O N D .C . 20 54 8

B-114854
June 14, 1984
To the Board of Directors
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
We have examined the statements of financial position of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as of December 31, 1983 and
1982, and the related statements of income and the deposit insur­
ance fund and changes in financial position for the years then
ended.
Our examination was made in accordance with generally ac­
cepted government auditing standards and, accordingly, included
such tests of the accounting records and such other auditing pro­
cedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances.
As a re­
sult of the work performed during our examination of the financial
statements, we have also issued separate reports, dated June 14 ,
1984, on compliance with laws and regulations, and internal ac­
counting controls.
In an attempt to protect the safety and soundness of the
banking system, FDIC arranged emergency assistance and took the
unprecedented action of guaranteeing all deposits and debts of
Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois.
(Reference is made to note 15 to the financial
statements.)
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above
present fairly the financial position of the Federal Deposit Insur­
ance Corporation as of December 31, 1983 and 1982, and the results
of its operations and the changes in its financial position for the
years then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles applied on a consistent basis after restatement for the
change, with which GAO concurs, in the method of accounting for as­
sistance given to insured institutions under the net worth certifi­
cate program as described in note 14 to the financial statements.

of the United States







LEGISLATION
AND
REGUL4TIONS

LEGISLATION
1983
The following is a summary of public laws
enacted in 1983 that are pertinent to the
activities of the FDIC.

Net Worth Certificates
Public Law 98-29, approved May 16,1983,
amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to
provide that the issuance of net worth
certificates does not constitute default under
existing subordinated debt obligations. The
am endm ent took effect retroactively on
October 15,1982, the date of enactm ent of
the Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions
Act of 1982.

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international Lending
Public Law 98-181, the Supplemental
Appropriations Act of 1984, which is further
known as the Domestic Housing and
International Recovery and Financial Stability
Act, approved November 30,1983, contains
two titles of importance to the FDIC:
-Title VII, an am endm ent to the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act, permits any sitting
member of the Board of Directors of the
FDIC to remain in office until a successor
has been confirmed by the Senate.
-Title IX, the International Lending
Supervision Act of 1983, is designed to
increase the supervision and regulation by
the FDIC and the other federal bank
regulatory agencies of international
lending, It provides for appropriate public
disclosure of information on individual
banks' foreign borrowing and lending, and
mandates accounting procedures that
accurately reflect the results of
international lending. The legislation directs
the agencies to require commercial banks
to set aside a new category of special
reserves against foreign loans when
borrowers demonstrate a protracted
inability to make debt service payments.
Each agency also is empowered to
require banking institutions to maintain
adequate capital by establishing minimum
levels of capital. The Act also promotes
international cooperation am ong bank
regulatory authorities,

RULES/4ND
REGULATIONS
1983
Delegations of Authority
(Part 303)
Effective March 9,1983, the FDIC
am ended its regulations to specify that the
Board of Review shall entertain any request
for reconsideration of a request denied by
the Board of Review under delegated
authority.
Effective June 13,1983, the Board of
Directors deleg'ated authority to the Director
of the Division of Bank Supervision and FDIC's
regional directors to approve, but not deny,
routine merger transactions if certain criteria
are met.
Effective July 20,1983, the FDIC simplified
procedures for most applicants and
provided for public participation in the
application process. The amendments
pertain primarily to applications to establish
and relocate branches and establish remote
service facilities. In addition, internal
delegations of authority for acting on other
types of applications were amended.
Effective August 12,1983, FDIC delegated
authority to certain officers of FDIC's Division
of Bank Supervision to execute and issue
orders to cease and desist from engaging in
unsafe, unsound or other prohibited activities
under section 8(b) of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Act when the bank or other
respondent consents to the order and
waives certain rights.




Forms, Instructions an d Reports
(Parts 304 and 349)
Effective July 20, 1983, in accordance with
changes in Part 303, several obsolete or
unnecessary forms were deleted from Part
304.
Effective December 31,1983, the FDIC
am ended Parts 304 and 349 of its
regulations, which required annual reports of
ownership of insured state nonmember
banks and insider indebtedness to the banks
and their correspondent banks. The final rule
requires an insured state nonmember bank
to disclose, upon written request, the names
of its executive officers and principal
shareholders who have substantial
borrowings from the bank or its
correspondent banks. The amendment also
restates the existing statutory requirement for
insiders to report to the board of directors of
their bank any indebtedness to the
correspondent banks of that bank.

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Termination of Insured Status.
(Part 307)

Rules of Practice and Procedures
(Part 308)

Effective May 31,1983, the FDIC amended
its regulation governing the notice
procedures to be followed by a bank whose
insured status has been terminated other
than by an action of the FDIC Board of
Directors. The am endm ent removes the
requirement that a bank or institution that
has assumed the liabilities of an insured
bank give notice of the assumption to the
depositors whose liabilities have been
assumed.

Effective March 7,1983, the FDIC
am ended its regulations to incorporate
provisions of the Garn-St Germain Depository
Institutions Act of 1982 that give FDIC
authority to compromise, modify or remit
certain civil money penalties and provide for
removal of a m anagem ent official for any
violation of the Depository Institution
Management Interlocks Act.

Disclosure of Information
(Part 309)
The FDIC removed, effective May 31,1983,
restrictions placed on the disclosure of
financial records and information to federal
financial supervisory agencies. The Garn-St
Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982
am ended the Right to Financial Privacy Act
of 1978 to clarify that the exchange of
records and information regarding financial
institutions is permitted am ong the federal
supervisory agencies.

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Interest on Deposits
(Port 329)

Deposit Insurance
(Part 330)

Effective January 3,1983, the FDIC
eliminated the requirement that retail
repurchase agreements be issued for 89
days or less. The current regulatory
environment favoring removal of interest rate
controls rendered this restriction obsolete.
Effective January 11,1983, the FDIC
amended sections 329.1 and 329.103 of its
regulations to allow public units that are not
operated primarily for religious,
philanthropic, charitable, fraternal,
educational or similar purposes to maintain
NOW accounts.
Effective August 1,1983, the FDIC adopted
two amendments to encourage the
conversions of mutual savings banks to a
capital stock form of ownership. The first
amendment expands the definition of
mutual savings bank to include statechartered stock savings banks, thereby
permitting those institutions to pay the thrift
differential interest rate on applicable
deposits. The second am endm ent permits
FDIC-insured, state-chartered savings bank to
waive the otherwise mandatory premature
withdrawal penalty when depositors
withdraw time deposits to purchase stock
upon the bank's conversion to a stock
savings bank.
Section 329.0 was amended, effective
September 15,1983, to clarify that FDIC's
interest rate regulations shall apply to certain
extraterritorial deposits which may
technically be situated outside of the U.S. but
are automatically linked to, or are an
integrated part of, a second deposit
account maintained and payable within the
U.S. In addition, effective the same date,
technical amendments were m ade to
conform Part 329 to the International
Banking Act of 1978.
On July 22,1983, FDIC published an
amendment to Part 329 (retroactively
effective December 14,1982) redefining
savings deposits to include Money Market
Deposit Accounts.

On November 1, 1983, the FDIC and the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board jointly
published an Advance Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking in the Federal Register soliciting
comments on certain deposit-placement
activities in the depository institutions industry.
The focus of the Advance Notice was on
how the agencies should deal with the issues
raised by the increasing dollar amount of
"insured" brokered deposits in banks and
savings associations.
Effective December 16,1983, the FDIC
am ended Part 330 of its regulations by
adding a new section that defined the
amount of an insured deposit to include
accrued or anticipated interest or earnings
on deposits as part of the deposits for
insurance purposes.




Securities of N onm em ber Insured
Banks (Part 335)
On December 5,1983, FDIC am ended Part
335 to conform to changes on com parable
SEC regulations. Effective January 13,1984,
the am endm ent covers interim financial
reporting, timely filing of statements,
reporting effects of changing prices,
accounting amendments, exhibit
requirements, financial statements and
technical amendments.

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Unsafe and Unsound Banking
Practices (Part 337)

Foreign Activities of Insured State
Nonm em ber Banks (Part 347)

Effective September 21,1983, FDIC
am ended Section 337.3(b) to eliminate the
requirement for prior approval by a majority
of a bank's entire board of directors of all
extensions of credit to the bank's directors,
executive officers, principal shareholders,
and related interests of any such persons
where those extensions of credit exceed in
the aggregate $25,000. Substituted in its
place was the requirement that a majority of
the bank's entire board of directors approve
in advance all extensions of credit to the
above individuals and their related interests
if the extensions of credit exceed in the
aggregate five percent of the bank's capital
and unimpaired surplus or $25,000,
whichever is larger. In any event, however,
any extension of credit exceeding in the
aggregate $500,000 must receive prior
approval despite the percentage of capital
test.
On September 12,1983, FDIC published an
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
soliciting com m ent on the need for
rulemaking to govern the direct or indirect
involvement of insured banks in the following
activities: real estate; insurance; data
processing for third parties; travel agency
activities, and other financially related
services. Comment also was solicited on
whether limitations should be imposed on
the ability of a com pany engaged in any of
the above activities to own an insured bank.

Effective July 20,1983, in line with changes
in Part 303, changes were m ade in the
application process for establishing, moving,
or closing foreign branches.

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M a n ag em en t Official Interlocks
(Part 348)
Effective February 7,1983, FDIC amended
its regulations to permit persons who had
terminated a grandfathered management
official interlock because of a change in
circumstances to resume their interlocking
positions and serve out the remainder of the
grandfather period (i.e., until November 10,
1988).
Effective November 30,1983 the FDIC
amended Part 348 to: (1) simplify the
procedures for obtaining exceptions to the
prohibitions and extensions of time to permit
compliance; (2) ease the burden on
depository institution holding companies by
redefining the terms "office" and "total
assets"; (3) broaden the exclusion for
management officials whose functions relate
exclusively to retail merchan'dising and
manufacturing; (4) broaden the
circumstances under which the exception for
disruptive management loss is available; (5)
clarify the circumstances that require
termination of nongrandfathered interlocks,
and (6) provide that interlocks between
depository organizations and nondepository
organizations that becam e diversified
savings and loan holding companies, or their
subsidiaries, need not be terminated until
November 10,1988, despite the occurrence
of subsequent changes in circumstances.




Statement of Policy
Effective August 25,1983, the FDIC issued a
Statement of Policy as to whether financial
assistance may be provided to prevent the
closing of an insured bank other than a
mutual savings bank under section 13(c) of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as
am ended (12 U.S.C. 1823(c)).

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ESM BLISH/M ENT
OF THE
FDIC
After 50 years, it is instructive to reexamine
the forces and events that brought the FDIC
into being. The following segment reviews
developments in the period 1930-1933
leading up to the enactm ent of the Banking
Act of 1933 on June 16 of that year. It is
excerpted from a history entitled FDIC: The
First Fifty Years prepared by the FDIC's
Division of Research and Strategic Planning
and scheduled for publication early in 1984.

On July 5,1934, Mrs. Lydia Lobsiger
received the first federal deposit insurance
reimbursement, following the failure of the
Fond Du Lac State Bank in East Peoria,
Illinois.

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The a d o p tio n o f n ationw ide dep o sit insurance in
1933 was m a d e possible by the times, by the
perseverance o f the C hairm an o f the House
C om m itte e on Banking a n d Currency, a n d by
the fa c t th a t the legislation a ttra c te d support
from 1wo groups w hich form erly had divergent
aims a n d interests — those w h o w ere
d eterm ined to end destruction o f circulating
m edium d u e to bank failures a n d those w ho
sought to preserve th e existing banking structure.1
- C. GOLEMBE

Banking Developments, 1930-1932
An average of more than 600 banks per
year failed between 1921 and 1929, which
was ten times the rate of failure during the
preceding decade. The closings evoked
relatively little concern, however, because
they primarily involved small, rural banks,
many of which were thought to be badly
m anaged and weak. Although these failures
caused the demise of the state insurance
programs by early 1930, the prevailing view
apparently was that the disappearance of
these banks served to strengthen the
banking system.
This ambivalence disappeared after a
wave of bank failures during the last few
months of 1930 triggered widespread
attempts to convert deposits to cash. Many
banks, seeking to accom m odate cash
demands or increase liquidity, contracted
credit and, in some cases, liquidated assets.
This reduced the quantity of cash available
to the community which, in turn, placed
additional cash demands on banks. Banks
were forced to restrict credit and liquidate
assets, further depressing asset prices and
exacerbating liquidity problems. As more
banks were unable to meet withdrawals and
were closed, depositors becam e more
sensitive to rumors. Confidence in the
banking system began to erode and bank
"runs" becam e more common.




During this period, the Federal Reserve did
little to ease the liquidity problems of banks.
The failure of the Federal Reserve to adopt
an aggressive stance with respect to either
open market purchases of securities or its
discount window operations has been
ascribed to several factors.2 Most notably, it
was generally believed that bank failures
were an outgrowth of bad m anagem ent
and, therefore, were not subject to
corrective action by the Federal Reserve,
Concern within the System also was muted
because most failed banks in 1930 were
nonmembers for which Federal Reserve
officials felt no responsibility.
In all, 1,350 banks suspended operations
during 1930.3 Bank failures during the previous
decade had been confined primarily to
agricultural areas; this no longer was the
case in 1930. In fact, the Bank of United
States, one of the nation's largest banks
based in New York City, failed that year. The
large jump in bank failures in 1930 was
accom panied by an even greater increase
in depositor losses.
As liquidity pressures subsequently eased
during the early months of 1931, the number
of bank failures declined sharply but the
decrease proved to be short-lived. Bank
failures again rose between March and June
as the public resumed converting deposits
into currency and banks sought to meet
withdrawal demands, During the second-half
of the year, another, more serious, liquidity
scramble occurred,
Commercial Bank Suspensions, 1921-1933 ($ Thousands)

Y ea r

1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933

N um ber
of Suspensions

Deposits

0)

(2)

Losses Borne
by Depositors
(3)

Losses to Depositors
As a Percent of
Deposits in Ail
C om m ercial Banks
(4)

172,806
91,182
149,601
210,150
166,937
260,153
199,332
142,386
230,643
837,096
1,690,232
706,187
3,596,708

$ 59,967
38,223
62,142
79,381
60,799
83,066
60,681
43,813
76,659
237,359
390,476
168,302
540,396

0.21 %
0.13
0.19
0.23
0.16
0.21
0.15
0.10
0.18
0.57
1.01
0.57
2.15

506
366
646
775
617
975
669
498
659
1,350
2,293
1,453
4,000

$

Source: Columns (1), (2), (3), FDIC; Column (4), Friedman and Schwartz.

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FDIC’s 50th anniversary commemorative
exhibit includes a replica of a typical bank of
1934, the year that the FDIC began opera­
tions. The bank is furnished with authentic
period artifacts.

Once again, the Federal Reserve failed to
inject sufficient liquidity into the banking
system. In 1931, policymakers were primarily
preoccupied with international monetary
matters. The abandonm ent by Great Britain
of the gold standard in September 1931
aroused general fears that other countries
might follow. These fears caused many
foreigners with U.S. bank accounts to convert
deposits to gold in the New York money
market. To stem the ensuing gold outflow,
the Reserve Bank of New York sharply
increased its rediscount rate. While this
action achieved the desired effect, no steps
were taken to augm ent already depleted
bank reserves through extensive open
market purchases of securities. By ignoring
domestic financial considerations, the
Federal Reserve added to the banking
industry's woes.

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The effects of these liquidity crises were
reflected in the failure statistics. About 2,300
banks suspended operations in 1931. The
number of failures thus exceeded the
average number for the 1921-1929 period by
almost threefold. Losses borne by depositors
in 1931 exceeded losses for the entire
1921-1929 period,
In an attem pt to ease bank liquidity
problems, a National Credit Corporation,
organized by bankers in the private sector,
was created in October 1931 to extend loans
to weakened banks, However, the
corporation failed within a matter of weeks,
Business leaders appealed to the federal
government for assistance, The Hoover
Administration responded by recommending
two measures, The first resulted in the
creation, in January 1932, of a new major
federal lending agency, the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation (RFC). One of its
primary functions was to make advances to
banks. By the end of 1932, the RFC had

authorized almost $900 million in loans to
assist over 4,000 banks striving to remain
open. The RFC might have assisted more
banks had Congress not ordered it to
disclose publicly the names of borrowers,
beginning in August 1932. Appearance of a
bank's name on the list was interpreted as a
sign of weakness, and frequently led to runs
on the bank. Consequently, many banks
refrained from borrowing from the RFC.
The second measure supported by the
Hoover Administration, the Glass-Steagall Act
of February 27,1932, broadened the
circumstances under which member banks
could borrow from the Federal Reserve
System. It enabled a member bank to
borrow from a Federal Reserve Bank upon
paper other than that ordinarily eligible for
rediscount or as collateral for loans. While
the amounts subsequently borrowed were
not large in the aggregate, the measure did
aid individual banks.
The generally improved banking situation
during the ensuing months was marked by a
significant drop in both the number of bank
failures and depositor losses. Other signs
suggested that the industry's troubles were
far from over. Waves of bank failures still
occurred during the year. Another
disquieting sign was the em ergence of bank
moratoria. Initially, they were declared by
individual local communities. Later that year,
Nevada proclaimed the first statewide
moratorium when runs on individual banks
threatened to involve banks throughout the
state. Similar moratoria were to play a role in
the events that culminated in the nationwide
bank holiday of 1933.




The Banking Crisis of 1933
During the winter of 1932-1933, banking
conditions deteriorated rapidly. In retrospect,
it is not possible to point to any single factor
that precipitated the calamitous events of
this period. The general uncertainty with
respect to monetary and banking conditions
undoubtedly played the major role, although
there were specific events that tended to
increase liquidity pressures within the system.
Banks, especially in states that had declared
bank moratoria, accelerated withdrawals
from correspondents in an attem pt to
strengthen their position. Currency holdings
increased significantly, partially in
anticipation of additional bank moratoria.
Additional liquidity pressures were brought
about by concern relating to the future of
the dollar. With the election of Franklin D.
Roosevelt in November 1932, rumors
circulated that the new administration would
devalue, which led to an increase in
speculative holdings of foreign currencies,
gold and gold certificates, Unlike the period
of international monetary instability of 1931, a
significant amount of the conversions from
Federal Reserve Notes and deposits to gold
cam e from domestic sources. These
demands placed considerable strain on
New York City banks and, ultimately, on the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
It was the suddenness of the withdrawal
demands in selected parts of the country
that started a panic of massive proportions.
State after state declared bank holidays. The
banking panic reached a peak during the
first three days of March 1933. Visitors arriving
in Washington to attend the presidential
inauguration found notices in their hotel
rooms that checks drawn on out-of-town
banks would not be honored. By March 4,
Inauguration Day, every state in the Union
had declared a bank holiday.
As one of his first official acts, President
Roosevelt proclaimed a nationwide bank
holiday to com m ence on March 6 and last
four days. Administration officials quickly
began to draft legislation designed to

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legalize the holiday and resolve the banking
crisis. Early in their deliberations they realized
that the success of any proposed plan of
action primarily would hinge on favorable
public reaction, As noted by Raymond
Moley, a key presidential adviser who
attended many of the planning sessions:
W e knew how m uch o f banking d e p e n d e d upon
m ake-believe or, stated m ore conservatively, the
vital p a rt th a t p u b lic c o n fid e n c e had in assuring
solvency.4

To secure public support, officials formulated
a plan that relied on orthodox banking
procedures.
Few members of Congress knew what was
contained in the Administration's bill when
they convened in extraordinary session at
noon on March 9. In fact, Henry B. Steagall,
Chairman of the Committee on Banking and
Currency, purportedly had the only copy of
the bill in the House. Waving the copy over
his head, Steagall had entered the House
chamber, shouting, "Here's the bill. Let's pass
it."5 After only 40 minutes of debate, during
which time no amendments were permitted,
the House passed the bill, known as the
Emergency Banking Act. Several hours later,
the Senate also approved the emergency
legislation intact.
The Emergency Banking Act legalized the
national bank holiday and set standards for
the reopening of banks after the holiday.
The Act expanded the RFC's powers as a
means of dealing with the crisis then
threatening the banking system. It authorized
the RFC to invest in the preferred stock and
capital notes of banks and to make secured
loans to individual banks.
To insure an adequate supply of currency,
the Act provided for the issuance of Federal
Reserve bank notes, which were to be
backed by U.S. government securities. The
Federal Reserve Banks were empowered to
advance the new currency to member
banks without requiring much collateral. After
the Act was signed into law, the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing promptly went into
24-hour production to manufacture the
currency.

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The President subsequently issued a
proclamation extending the holiday in order
to allow time for officials to reopen the
banks. In his first "fireside chat," delivered on
March 12, President Roosevelt reviewed the
events of the past several days and outlined
the reopening schedule. Following proper
certification, member banks in the twelve
Federal Reserve Bank cities were to reopen
on March 13. Member banks in some 250
other cities with recognized clearinghouses
were to reopen on March 14. Thereafter,
licensed member banks in all other localities
were to reopen. The President indicated that
the Secretary of the Treasury already had
contacted the various state banking
departments and requested them to follow
the same schedule in reopening state
nonmember banks. Before concluding his
radio address, the President cautioned that
he could not promise that every bank in the
nation would be reopened. About 4,000
banks never reopened either because of the
events of the previous two months or the
bank holiday itself.
The task of implementing the Emergency
Banking Act primarily was the responsibility of
the Secretary of the Treasury. Under the Act,
licenses for all member banks, both national
and state, were to be issued by the
Secretary. (State nonmember banks were to
be licensed by the state banking
departments.) The Treasury, however,
dem anded that each of the Federal Reserve
Banks approve of the reopening of banks in
their respective districts. The Federal Reserve
Board balked at this demand, preferring
instead that the Treasury Department
shoulder the entire burden of reopening
member banks. The controversy was resolved
in the Treasury Department's favor. It was
agreed that licenses would be issued by the
Secretary of the Treasury upon the
recommendation of the district Federal
Reserve Bank, the chief national bank
examiner and the Comptroller of the
Currency. Several hundred banks soon
reopened for business on the certification of
the Treasury. As the reopenings proceeded,
public confidence increased significantly
and widespread hoarding ceased.

Members of the public visit FDIC’s 50th
anniversary commemorative exhibit in
Washington, D.C., and view documents and
other memorabilia of the early years of fed­
eral deposit insurance operations.

Federal Deposit Insurance
Legislation
After some semblance of order had
returned to the financial system, efforts were
renewed in Congress to enact deposit
insurance legislation. Although a deposit
insurance bill had been passed by the
House in 1932, the Senate had adjourned
without acting on the proposal. Insurance
proponents hoped that legislative efforts
would prove successful this time, since the
banking crisis was still fresh in the public's
mind. In their view, recent events had shown
that a system of federal deposit insurance
was necessary to achieve and maintain
financial stability.
One of the chief proponents of federal
deposit insurance in Congress was
Representative Henry B. Steagall. He has
been credited with proposing the legislation
which created the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, leading the fight for its
adoption in the House and helping to effect
a compromise when chances for passage of
the bill appeared doomed. Steagall's
achievement was all the more remarkable in
view of the formidable opposition
confronting the proponents of deposit
insurance. Opposition em anated from the




Roosevelt Administration, segments of the
banking industry and from some members of
Congress.
Arguments offered against deposit
insurance reflected both practical and
philosophical considerations. Opponents
asserted that deposit insurance would never
work. They pointed to the defunct state-level
deposit programs to substantiate their
argument. Another widely held view was that
deposit insurance would remove penalties
for bad management. Critics also charged
that deposit insurance would be too
expensive and that it would represent an
unwarranted intrusion by the federal
government into the private sector.
Within the Roosevelt Administration, the
Secretary of the Treasury was strongly
opposed to the idea of federal deposit
insurance. While historians have asserted that
Secretary Woodin's views were partially
responsible for President Roosevelt's
opposition to deposit insurance, accounts
differ regarding the nature and extent of
Franklin Roosevelt's opposition. However, the
Administration was not of one mind on the
issue. Support was voiced by Vice President
John Nance Garner and Jesse H, Jones of
the RFC, am ong others. Prior to Roosevelt's
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inauguration, Garner, then-Speaker of the
House, had appealed to the President-elect
to support deposit insurance. When
Roosevelt declined, stating that it would
never work, Garner predicted that deposit
insurance legislation eventually would be
passed.6
Banking interests, particularly those
representing the larger banks, generally
viewed federal deposit insurance with
distaste. The President of the American
Bankers Association declared that deposit
insurance was "unsound, unscientific and
dangerous."7 The banking industry's views
had only limited im pact since banking at
that time was held in low esteem. The
industry's already tarnished image was not
helped by disclosures of unsavory security
market dealings on the part of certain New
York banks which cam e to light when
deposit insurance-was being considered in
Congress.
More formidable opposition to deposit
insurance cam e from several influential
Congressmen. One of the most vociferous
opponents was Carter Glass of Virginia,
Chairman of the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee. He had been
Roosevelt's initial choice to serve as
Secretary of the Treasury, but declined the
Cabinet offer. Although Senator Glass was
intent on passing banking reform legislation,
federal deposit insurance was not one of the
reforms he supported or sought. In opposing
federal deposit insurance, Glass pointed to
the record of the defunct state insurance
programs. Nevertheless, he subsequently
allowed bank deposit insurance to be
written into a banking bill that he had
sponsored. One business journal during the
period reported that Glass simply had
yielded to public opinion:
It b e c a m e perfectly a p p a re n t th a t the voters
w a n te d th e g u a ra n te e [deposit insurance], a n d
th a t no bill w hich d id n o t co n ta in such a
provision w ould b e satisfactory either to Congress
or to th e public. W ashington does n o t rem em ber
any issue on w hich th e sentim ent o f th e country
has be e n so undivided or so e m p h a tica lly
expressed as upon this.8

In mid-May, both Senator Glass and
Representative Steagall formally introduced
banking reform bills, which included
provisions for deposit insurance. The two bills
primarily differed with respect to the
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conditions for membership in the deposit
insurance corporation that was to be
created, Whereas membership in the
Federal Reserve was a precondition for
obtaining deposit insurance under the
Senate bill, it was not a prerequisite in the
House version, Both bills incorporated the
demands m ade by the Roosevelt
Administration that: (1) deposit coverage be
based on a sliding scale; and (2) there be a
one-year delay in the start of the insurance
corporation,
Later that month, however, the Glass bill
was am ended to incorporate Senator Arthur
Vandenberg's proposal calling for the
creation of a temporary deposit insurance
fund. Vandenberg opposed a delay in the
start of deposit insurance because "the need
is greater in the next year than for the next
hundred years."9 On the day Vandenberg
introduced his proposal, Vice President
Garner was presiding over the Senate, which
was sitting as a court of im peachm ent in the
trial of a district judge. Garner had heard
that Vandenberg had formulated a deposit
insurance plan that would accomplish the
same goals as those contained in an
insurance bill which Garner had pushed
through the House in 1932. Desiring that
deposit insurance be implemented as soon
as possible, Garner therefore approached
Vandenberg during the im peachm ent
proceedings and inquired whether he had
the deposit insurance am endm ent in his
possession. After Vandenberg responded
affirmatively, Garner instructed him to
introduce the am endm ent when signaled.
Several minutes later, Garner suspended the
court proceedings and ordered the Senate
into regular session to consider more
banking legislation. With Garner sitting by his
side, Vandenberg then offered his deposit
insurance amendment, which was
overwhelmingly adopted,
The am endm ent stipulated that, effective
January 1,1934, the temporary fund would
provide insurance coverage up to $2,500 for
each depositor and would function until a
permanent corporation began operations
on July 1,1934. If demands on the temporary
fund exceeded available monies, the
Treasury would be obliged to make up the
difference. The am endm ent also provided
that solvent state banks could join the fund.




(From left) Vice President George Bush,
Postmaster General William F. Bolger and
Chairman William M. Isaac unveil the
FDIC's 50th Anniversary commemorative
stamp, as Mrs. Bush looks on, at a special
ceremony and reception held at FDIC
headquarters.

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The inclusion of the Vandenberg
am endm ent in the Senate bill almost
resulted in the defeat of deposit insurance in
Congress. When the banking reform bills that
had been passed by both houses were sent
to a joint conference committee, for
resolution of differences, an impasse
promptly developed. The House conferees
opposed the Vandenberg amendment
contained in the Senate version of the bill,
particularly the provision calling for the
immediate establishment of a temporary
insurance corporation. Another issue that split
the conferees was whether Federal Reserve
membership should be a precondition for
obtaining deposit insurance.
A compromise finally was reached on
June 12, after the Senate conferees
threatened to remove all deposit insurance
provisions from the bill. They feared that the
impasse over deposit insurance could
endanger all of the banking reform
measures contained in the bill. In order to
save the bill, the House conferees reluctantly
accepted the Senate's version as well as an
additional provision desired by the Senate
conferees to liberalize the branching
restrictions governing national banks. This
provision reflected widespread public
disillusionment with the failure-prone
independent banking system. Proponents of
branch banking maintained that geographic
diversification of lending risks and the
deposit Pase would result in a lower bank
failure rate.
The bill agreed to by the conferees
passed both houses of Congress on the
following day. Some opponents of deposit
insurance had not yet thrown in the towel,
though. The American Bankers Association
wired its member banks, urging them to
telegraph President Roosevelt immediately
to request his veto of the legislation.
Nevertheless, President Roosevelt signed the
measure, known as the Banking Act of 1933,
into law on June 16,1933. Section 8 of the
Act created the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation through an am endm ent to the
Federal Reserve Act. The Banking Act of 1933
also created the Federal Reserve Open
Market Committee and imposed restrictions
on the permissible activities of member
banks of the Federal Reserve System.

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Deposit Insurance Provisions of
the Banking Act of 1933
Section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act as
am ended created the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation and defined its
organization, duties and functions. It
provided for two separate plans of deposit
insurance: a temporary plan which was to
be initiated on January 1,1934, and a
permanent plan which was to becom e
effective on July 1,1934.
Capital necessary to establish the FDIC
was to be provided by the United States
Treasury and the twelve Federal Reserve
Banks. The Treasury was to contribute $150
million, Each of the twelve Federal Reserve
Banks was required to subscribe to Class B
capital stock in an amount equal to one-half
of its surplus as of January 1,1933.
M anagem ent of the FDIC was vested in a
Board of Directors consisting of three
members. The Comptroller of the Currency
was designated a member ex officio; the
other two members were to be appointed
by the President for six-year terms with the
advice and consent of the Senate, One of
the two appointive directors was to serve as
Chairman of the Board, and not more than
two members of the Board could be
members of the same political party.
The temporary plan of deposit insurance
initially limited protection to $2,500 for each
depositor. Banks admitted to insurance
under the temporary plan were to be
assessed an amount equal to one-half of
one percent of insurable deposits. One-half
of the assessment was payable at once; the
rest was payable upon call by the FDIC.

All Federal Reserve member banks
licensed by the Secretary of the Treasury
under terms of an Executive Order of the
President, issued March 10,1933, were
required by law to becom e members of the
temporary fund on January 1,1934. Other
banks were authorized to join the fund upon
certification of their solvency by the
respective state supervisory agencies and
after examination by, and with the approval
of, the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
The original permanent plan, while it never
took effect and was superseded by a new
permanent plan in the Banking Act of 1935,
contained certain features of historical
interest. Banks participating in insurance
under the original plan were to subscribe to
capital stock of the FDIC and be subject to
whatever assessments might be needed to
meet the losses from deposit insurance
operations. The plan provided for full
protection of the first $10,000 of each
depositor, 75 percent coverage of the next
$40,000 of deposits, and 50 percent
coverage of all deposits in excess of
$50,000. In order to retain their insurance, all
participating banks were required to
becom e members of the Federal Reserve
System within two years. Thus, with regard to
financing, degree of protection and
supervisory provisions, the original plan
differed significantly from both the
temporary plan and the permanent plan
that becam e effective with the Banking Act
of 1935.




Footnotes
1G o le m b e , "The Deposit Insurance Legislation o f
1933," p. 182.
2A discussion o f th e Federal Reserve System's attitude
a p p e a rs in Milton Friedman a n d Anna J. Schwartz, A

Monetary History o f the United States, 1867-1960
(Princeton, New Jersey: N ational Bureau o f Econom ic
Research, 1963), pp. 357-359. M uch o f th e discussion
relating to the events p re c e d in g th e nationw ide bank
holiday is based on this source.
3The terms "b a n k suspensions" a n d "bank failures"
a re often used interchangeably. For th e most part, this
p ra c tic e is fo llo w e d th ro u g h o u t th e chapter.
Technically, however, "suspensions" include all banks
th a t a re closed because o f fin a n cial difficulties,
whereas "failures" a re lim ited to those suspended
banks th a t w e re p la c e d in th e hands o f receivers and
liquidated. Some o f th e suspended banks w ere
reorganized or restored to solvency a n d resumed
operations. In either instance, th e assumption is th a t
th e suspended bank actually failed, though
rehabilitation later occurred.
4Raymond Moley, The First New Deal (New York:
Harcourt, Brace 8c World, Inc., 1966), p. 171.
5lb id „ p. 177.
6lb id „ pp. 318-319.
7"Wires Banks to Urge Veto o f Glass Bill," New York
Times, June 16,1933, p. 14.
®"Deposit Insurance," Business Week, April 12,1933,
p. 3.
9"Bank Bill D e b a te to O p e n in Senate," New York
Times, M ay 19,1933, p. 4.

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Banks Closed Because of Financial
Difficulties: FDIC Income,
Disbursements and Losses
Certain statistical tables in the FDIC Annual
Report have been deleted from the 1983
edition. These tables include:
- the asset and liability portion of Table
123, Insured Banks Requiring
Disbursements by the FDIC;
- Table 124, Depositors, Deposits and
Disbursements in Failed Banks Requiring
Disbursements by the FDIC, 1934-1983;
- Table 126, Analysis of Disbursements,
Recoveries and Losses in Deposit
Insurance Transactions, January 1,
1934-December 31,1983;
- Table 128, Protection of Depositors of
Failed Banks Requiring Disbursements by
the FDIC, 1934-1983.
Information that would have been presented
in these tables is available from the FDIC
Office of Information on a request basis.
The following tables remain in the 1983
FDIC Annual Report:
- Table 122, Number and Deposits of
Banks Closed Because Of Financial
Difficulties, 1934-1983;
- Table 123, Insured Banks Requiring
Disbursements By The Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation During 1983;
- Table 125, Recoveries and Losses By The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
On Principal Disbursements for Protection
of Depositors, 1934-1983;
- Table 127, Income and Expenses, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, By Year,
From Beginning of Operations,
September 11,1933 to December 31,
1983;
- Table 129, Insured Deposits And The
Deposit Insurance Fund, 1934-1983,

Deposit Insurance Disbursements
Disbursements by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation to protect depositors
are m ade when the insured deposits of
banks in financial difficulties are paid off, or
when the deposits of a failing bank are
assumed by another insured bank with the
financial aid of the Corporation. In deposit
payoff cases, the disbursement is the
amount paid by the Corporation on insured
deposits. In the modified deposit payoff, an
alternative method, the FDIC transfers the
failed bank's insured and secured deposits
to another bank in the community while
uninsured depositors must share with the
FDIC and other general creditors of the bank
in any proceeds realized from liquidation of
the failed bank's assets. In deposit
assumption cases, the principal disbursement
is the amount loaned to failing banks, or the
price paid for assets purchased from them.
Additional disbursements are m ade in those
cases as advances for protection of assets in
process of liquidation and for liquidation
expenses. In deposit assumption cases, the
Corporation also may purchase assets or
guarantee an insured bank against loss by
reason of its assuming the liabilities and
purchasing the assets of an open or closed
insured bank. Under its section 13(c) authority,
the Corporation m ade disbursements in 1983
to three operating banks.

Noninsured Bank Failures
Statistics in this report on failures of
noninsured banks are com piled from
information obtained from State banking
departments, field supervisory officials, and
other sources. The Corporation received no
reports of noninsured bank closures due to
financial difficulties in 1983. For detailed data
regarding noninsured banks that were
suspended in the years 1934-1962, see the
FDIC Annual Report for 1963, pages 27-41. For
1963-1983, see Table 122 of this report, and
previous reports for respective years.

Sources of Data
Insured banks: books of bank at date of
closing, and books of FDIC, December 31,
1983.

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Table 122.

NUMBER AND DEPOSITS OF BANKS CLOSED BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, 1934-1983
Number

Deposits (in thousands of dollars)
Insured

Year

Total

NonInsured'

Total

Total

812

136

676

1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

61
32
72
84
81
72
48
17
23
5
2
1
2
6
3
9
5
5
4
5
4
5
3
3
9
3
2
9
3
2
8
9
8
4
3
9
8
6
3
6
4
14
17
6
7
10
10
10
42
48

52
6
3
7
7
12
5
2
3

9
26
69
77
74
60
43
15
20
5
2
1
1
5
3
5
4
2
3
4
2
5
2
2
4
3
1
5
1
2
7
5
7
4
3
9
7
6
1
6
4
13
16
6
7
10
10
10
42
48

" i
1
"4
1
3
1
1
2
" l
1
5
“ i
4
2
"1
4
1

"1

" 2

Insured

Without
With
disbursements disbursements
by FDIC2
by FDIC3
8

"2

"2

Total

NonInsured'

Total

668

25,584,821

143,501

25,441,321

9
25
69
75
74
60
43
15
20
5
2
1
1
5
3
4
4
2
3
2
2
5
2
1
4
3
1
5

37,332
13,988
28,100
34,205
60,722
160,211
142,788
29,796
19,540
12,525
1,915
5,695
494
7,207
10,674
9,217
5,555
6,464
3,313
45,101
2,948
11,953
11,690
12,502
10,413
2,593
7,965
10,611
4,231
23,444
23,867
45,256
106,171
10,878
22,524
40,134
55,229
132,058
99,784
971,296
1,575,832
340,574
865,659
205,208
854,154
110,696
216,300
3,826,022
9,908,379
5,441,608

35,365
583
592
528
1,038
2,439
358
79
355

1,968
13,405
27,508
33,677
59,684
157,772
142,430
29,717
19,185
12,525
1,915
5,695
347
7,040
10,674
6,665
5,513
3,408
3,170
44,711
998
11,953
11,330
11,247
8,240
2,593
6,930
8,936
3,011
23,444
23,438
43,861
103,523
10,878
22,524
40,134
54,806
132,058
20,480
971,296
1,575,832
339,574
864,859
205,208
854,154
110,696
216,300
3,826,022
9,908,379
5,441,608

"2
7
5
7
4
3
9
7
6
1
6
4
13
16
6
7
10
10
10
42
48

147
167
2,552
42
3,056
143
390
1,950
360
1,255
2,173
1,035
1,675
1,220
429
1,395
2,648

423
79,304

1,000
800

Without
With
disbursements disbursements
by FDIC2
by FDIC3
41,147

"8 5
328

1,190

26,449

10,084

Assets4
(in
Thousands
of
Dollars)

25,400,174

33,025,350

1,968
13,320
27,508
33,349
59,684
157,772
142,430
29,717
19,185
12,525
1,915
5,695
347
7,040
10,674
5,475
5,513
3,408
3,170
18,262
998
11,953
11,330
1,163
8,240
2,593
6,930
8,936

2,661
17,242
31,941
40,370
69,513
181,514
161,898
34,804
22,254
14,058
2,098
6,392
351
6,798
10,360
4,886
4,005
3,050
2,388
18,811
1,138
11,985
12,914
1,253
8,905
2,858
7,506
9,820

23,444
23,438
43,861
103,523
10,878
22,524
40,134
54,806
132,058
20,480
971,296
1,575,832
339,574
864,859
205,208
854,154
110,696
216,300
3,826,022
9,908,379
5,441,608

26,179
25,849
58,750
120,647
11,993
25,154
43,572
62,147
196,520
22,054
1,309,675
3,822,596
419,950
1,039,293
232,612
994,035
132,988
236,164
4,859,060
11,632,415
7,206,923

3,011

5

'For information regarding each of these banks, see table 22 in the 1963 Annual Report (1963 and p rior years), and explanatory notes to tables regarding banks closed because of
financial difficulties in subsequent annual reports. One noninsured bank placed in receivership in 1934, with no deposits at time or closing, is omitted (see table 22 note 9). Deposits are
unavailable for seven banks.
2For information regarding these cases, see table 23 of the Annual Report for 1963.
3For information regarding each bank, see the Annual Report for 1958, pp. 48-83 and pp. 98-127, and tables regarding deposit insurance disbursements in subsequent annual reports.
Deposits are adjusted as of December 31,1982.
4lnsured banks only.
5Not available.




53

Table 123.

INSURED BANKS REQUIRING DISBURSEMENTS BY THE FEDERAL INSURANCE CORPORATION DURING 1983

Class
of bank

Number of
depositors
or accounts

Total
Assets
(OOO's)

Total
Deposits
(OOO's)

FDIC
disburse­
ments
(OOO's)

Date of closing
or deposit
assumption

Receiver or liquidating
agent or
assuming bank

State Bank of Barnum
Barnum, Minnesota

NM

3,043

13,288

12,611

11,900

February 9, 1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

Columbia Pacific Bank and Trust
Company
Portland, Oregon

SM

2,000

35,804

31,644

30,748

March 18,1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

Prairie County Bank
Hazen, Arkansas

NM

3,062

16,455

15,479

14,884

March 24,1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

Sparta-Sanders State Bank
Sparta, Kentucky

NM

769

19,585

18,303

18,193

April 15, 1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

N

2,300

13,312

17,416

16,132

June 24,1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

SM

1,639

10,037

10,525

11,230

June 30,1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

July 8,1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

Name and location
Deposit Payoff

Western National Bank of Lovell
Lovell, Wyoming
Mineral Bank of Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Union National Bank of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

N

13,441

23,908

24,518

20,379

First National Bank of Browning
Browning, Montana

N

4,000

11,289

11,602

9,675

November 10,1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

Atkinson Trust and Savings Bank
Atkinson, Illinois

NM

3,929

20,359

18,900

17,937

November 25,1983

Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation

The Madison County Bank
Fredericktown, Missouri

NM

7,100

6,701

6,555

3,064

January 21,1983

Madison Exchange Bank
Fredericktown, Missouri

Dry Dock Savings Bank
New York, New York

NM

302,531

2,500,000

2,037,959

33,343

February 9,1983

Dollar Savings Bank of
New York
New York, New York

American State Bank
Bradley, Illinois

NM

4,868

12,115

12,463

5,657

February 12, 1983

Midwest Trust and Savings Bank
of Bradley
Bradley, Illinois

United American Bank in Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

NM

134,945

778,434

584,619

222,447

February 14, 1983

First Tennessee Bank
Knoxville, Tennessee

Merchants and Farmers State Bank
Blythe, California

NM

1,500

5,319

5,204

2,941

February 18, 1983

Credit Bank
Blythe, California

American City Bank
Los Angeles, California

NM

25,749

271,765

254,536

191,378

February 25, 1983

Central Bank
Oakland, California

Newport Harbour National Bank
Newport Beach, California

N

2,219

47,663

44,234

32,964

March 11, 1983

Trans American National Bank
Monterey Park, California

Pan American National Bank
Union City, New Jersey

N

9,900

30,830

31,275

17,905

March 18,1983

Hudson United Bank
Union City, New Jersey

Bear Creek Valley Bank
Phoenix, Oregon

NM

1,973

11,019

10,855

8,871

March 25,1983

Valley of the Rogue Bank
Rogue River, Oregon

The Ina State Bank
Ina, Illinois

NM

4,627

16,253

15,892

9,362

A pril 8,1983

First Bank and Trust Company
Mount Vernon, Illinois

Bank of San Marino
San Marino, California

NM

2,248

12,959

12,707

7,805

April 8,1983

Trans American National Bank
Monterey Park, California

Heritage Bank
Ashland, Oregon

NM

3,342

16,408

14,621

10,495

April 29, 1983

Valley of the Rogue Bank
Rogue River, Oregon

N

25,172

120,081

119,448

84,185

April 29,1983

Oak Lawn National Bank
Oak Lawn, Illinois

Smith County Bank
Carthage, Tennessee

NM

5,118

28,231

27,198

18,039

May 6,1983

Murfreesboro Bank and Trust
Company
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

City and County Bank of Knox County
Knoxville, Tennessee

NM

32,016

243,885

227,481

151,601

May 27,1983

Bank of Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

United Southern Bank of Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

SM

14,880

114,835

96,300

117,457

May 27,1983

Union Planters Corporation
Memphis, Tennessee

United American Bank in Hamilton
County
Chattanooga, Tennessee

NM

48,248

134,653

105,993

65,716

May 27,1983

Union Planters Corporation
Memphis, Tennessee

Deposit Assumptions, Loans
and Financially Assisted Mergers

First National Bank of Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn, Illinois

54



Table 123.

INSURED BANKS REQUIRING DISBURSEMENTS BY THE FEDERAL INSURANCE CORPORATION DURING 1983

Class
of bank

Number of
depositors
or accounts

Total
Assets
(OOO's)

Total
Deposits
(OOO's)

FDIC
disburse­
ments
(OOO's)

City and County Bank of Roane
County
Kingston, Tennessee

NM

7,000

40,120

36,499

22,146

May 27,1983

Bank of O ak Ridge
O ak Ridge, Tennessee

City and County Bank of Anderson
County
Lake City, Tennessee

NM

5,871

142,000

139,561

81,969

May 27,1983

Third National Corporation
Nashville, Tennessee

The Commercial Bank of California
Los Angeles, California

NM

5,158

27,772

23,057

16,653

May 27,1983

First Credit Bank
Blythe, California

Community Bank
Hartford, South Dakota

NM

8,355

42,383

39,327

23,814

June 17, 1983

Western Bank
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

The First Central Bank
Smithville, Tennessee

NM

3,222

18,989

18,246

11,353

July 8,1983

City Bank and Trust Company
McMinnville, Tennessee

Bank of Niobrara
Niobrara, Nebraska

NM

773

7,285

6,239

5,078

July 8,1983

Farmers and Merchants State
Bank
Bloomfield, Nebraska

First Peoples Bank of Washington
County
Johnson City, Tennessee

NM

20,334

152,543

176,549

86,515

July 29, 1983

First American National Bank
— Eastern
Kingsport, Tennessee

Metro Bank
Midland, Texas

NM

2,500

30,747

28,786

20,794

July 29,1983

Mid-Cities National Bank
Midland, Texas

Oregon Mutual Savings Bank
Portland, Oregon

NM

47,745

260,000

251,337

11,850

August 5, 1983

Oregon First Bank
Portland, Oregon

N

2,560

10,557

10,843

7,623

August 5, 1983

First State Bank of Danvers
Danvers, Illinois

First Commerce Bank of Hawkins
County
Rogersville, Tennessee

NM

8,821

47,213

43,734

20,805

August 12,1983

Hamilton Bank of Johnson City
Johnson City, Tennessee

United Southern Bank of Clarksville
Clarksville, Tennessee

NM

3,666

8,730

10,394

6,550

August 26,1983

First American Bank of
Nashville, NA
Nashville, Tennesee

The Douglass Slate Bank
Kansas City, Kansas

NM

7,200

28,327

26,545

20,184

September 2,1983

The Douglass Bank
Kansas City, Kansas

Warren County Bank
McMinnville, Tennessee

NM

4,019

19,310

18,801

10,517

September 16, 1983

Murfreesboro Bank and Trust
Company
Murfreesboro, Tennesee

Dominion Bank of Denver
Denver, Colorado

NM

2,653

11,461

11,915

7,233

September 30, 1983

Central Bank at Stapleton, N.A.
Denver, Colorado

National Bank of Odessa
Odessa, Texas

N

19,527

77,662

76,164

53,614

September 30, 1983

First State Bank of Odessa, NA
Odessa, Texas

Auburn Savinas Bank
Auburn, New York

NM

38,014

130,000

131,382

9,840

October 1,1983

Syracuse Savings Bank
Syracuse, New York

The Deschutes Bank
Redmond, Oregon

NM

2,800

9,414

9,224

7,318

October 7,1983

United States National Bank of
Oregon
Portland, Oregon

N

76,400

1,404,092

574,183

1,076,217

October 14,1983

RepublicBank Corporation
Dallas, Texas

Union Trust Company
San Juan, Puerto Rico

NM

1,267

25,630

23,275

15,410

December 9,1983

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bank of Hackleburg
Hackleburg, Alabama

NM

2,005

6,833

6,800

2,797

December 13, 1983

Southrust Bank of Marion
County
Hamilton, Alabama

The Bank of Red Oak
Red Oak, Oklahoma

NM

3,514

10,667

10,408

6,006

December 16, 1983

Farmers State Bank
Quinton, Oklahoma

Name and location

The First National Bank of Danvers
Danvers, Illinois

The First National Bank of Midland
Midland, Texas




Date of closing
or deposit
assumption

Receiver or liquidating
agent or
assuming bank

55

RECOVERIES AND LOSSES BY THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
ON DISBURSEMENTS FOR PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS, 1934-1983 (Amounts in thousands of dollars)
Table 125.
Liquidation
status and
year of
deposit
payoff or
deposit
assumption
Total . . . .

All cases
Number
of
banks
668

Disburse­
ments

Deposit payoff cases

Recoveries Estimated
to Dec. 31, additional
1983
recoveries

Losses'

10,858,467 5,556,305, 2,725,109 2,577,053

Deposit assumption cases5

Number
of
banks

Disburse­
ments2

Recoveries Estimated
to Dec. 31, additional
1983
recoveries

Losses'

Number
of
banks

328

813,179

372,868

195,248

340

245,063

Disburse­
ments3

Recoveries Estimated
to Dec. 31, additional
1983
recoveries

Losses'

10,045,288 5,183,437 2,480,046 2,381,805

Year4

1934
1935
1936
1937
1938

....
....
....
....
....

9
25
69
75
74

941
9,108
15,206
20,204
34,394

734
6,423
12,873
16,532
31,969

207
2,685
2,333
3,672
2,425

9
24
42
50
50

941
6,026
7,735
12,365
9,092

734
4,274
6,397
9,718
7,908

207
1,752
1,338
2,647
1,184

" l
27
25
24

3,082
7,471
7,839
25,302

2,149
6,476
6,814
24,061

933
995
1,025
1,241

1939
1940
1941
1942
1943

....
....
....
....
....

60
43
15
20
5

81,828
87,899
25,061
11,684
7,230

74,676
84,103
24,470
10,996
7,107

7,152
3,796
591
688
123

32
19
8
6
4

26,196
4,895
12,278
1,612
5,500

20,399
4,313
12,065
1,320
5,377

5,797
582
213
292
123

28
24
7
14
1

55,632
83,004
12,783
10,072
1,730

54,277
79,790
12,405
9,676
1,730

1,355
3,214
378
396

1944
1945
1946
1947
1948

....
....
....
....
....

2
1
1
5
3

1,532
1,845
274
2,038
3,150

1,492
1,845
274
1,979
2,509

40

1

404

364

40

1
1
1
5
3

1,128
1,845
274
2,038
3,150

1,128
1,845
274
1,979
2,509

1949
1950
1951
1952
1953

....
....
....
....
....

4
4
2
3
2

2,685
4,404
1,986
1,525
5,359

2,316
3,019
1,986
733
5,359

369
1,385

4
4
2
3
2

2,685
4,404
1,986
1,525
5,359

2,316
3,019
1,986
733
5,359

369
1,385

1954
1955
1956
1957
1958

....
....
....
....
. ...

2
5
2
1
4

1,029
7,315
3,499
1,031
3,051

771
7,085
3,286
1,031
3,023

258
230
213

2
1
1

1,029
2,877
704

771
2,877
704

258

255

255

1959
1960
1961
1963

....
....
....
. ...

3
1
5
2

1,835
4,765
6,201
19,172

1,738
4,765
4,699
18,886

1964
1965
1966
1967
1968

....
.. . .
....
....
....

7
5
7
4
3

13,741
11,529
10,020
8,097
6,476

12,171
7,438
9,541
7,087
6,464

659
198
234

571
9,285

425
8,806

6,476

6,464

1969
1970
1971
1972
1973

....
....
....
....
....

9
7
6
1
6

41,196
50,953
171,409
16,255
433,585

41,035
50,570
171,159
13,874
334,459

33,600
21,624
117,619

33,521
21,577
117,607

8
47
12

71

416,803

317,688

34,590

64,525

1974
1975
1976
1977
1978

....
....
....
. ...
....

4
13
16
6
7

2,400,675 2,230,103
326,024 275,804
591,865 502,853
25,043
18,155
529,061
453,156

2,400,675 2,230,103
300,032 250,458
580,403 493,723
25,043
18,155
528,243 452,584

170,227
31,113
71,653
4,535
70,009

345
18,461
15,027
2,353
5,650

1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

....
....
. ...
....
....

10
10
10
42
48

86,143
143,086
987,848
1,980,616
2,658,594

76,184
129,204
952,073
1,703,763
2,507,516

"5 9
641

792

"4
1
1
3

4,438
2,795
1,031
2,796

4,208
2,582
1,031
2,768

3
1
5
2

1,835
4,765
6,201
19,172

1,738
4,765
4,699
18,886

911
3,893
245
1,010
12

7
3
1
4

13,741
10,958
735
8,097

12,171
7,013
735
7,087

8
111
57
693
34,601

153
272
193
1,688
64,525

4
4
5
1
3

7,596
29,329
53,790
16,255
16,782

7,514
28,993
53,552
13,874
16,771

"6 4
45
693
11

170,227
31,672
72,125
4,535
70,096

345
18,548
16,887
2,353
5,809

3

25,992
11,462

25,346
9,130

559
472

"8 7
1,860

"l

818

572

"8 7

159

4
10
13
6
6

9,959
13,882
35,775
276,853
151,078

8,100
8,299
14,711
45,454

1,121
4,202
10,883
93,325
132,744

738
1,381
10,181
138,074
18,334

7
7
8
35
39

"2 8
97
1,502
286

9,691
67,617
8,835
90,178
29,491
23,417
321,356
49,362
617,130
232,238 551,996 1,196,382
374,368 1,699,353
584,873

230
213
"2 8

" l

3
3
2
7
9

792

97
1,502
286
659
198

911
3,747

"2

6

234

82
272
193
1,688

5
3'
1
"3

' 12

59,517
8,097
8,570
25,289
81,879
22,036
38,479
606,949
306,645
186,784 458,671 1,058,308
566,539
374,368 1,566,609

'Includes estimated losses in active cases. Not adjusted for interest or allowable return, which was collected in some cases in which the disbursement was fully recovered,
includes estimated additional disbursements in active cases.
Excludes excess collections turned over to banks as additional purchase price at termination of liquidation.
4No case in 1962 required disbursements.
5"Deposit Assumption Cases" include:
a) Banks merged with financial assistance from FDIC to prevent probable failure.
b) $822.5 million of recorded liabilities at book value payable over future years.
c) $435.0 million of recorded liabilities at present value expected to be payable over future years.
a) $347.6 million of disbursements for advances to protect assets and liquidation expenses which had been excluded in prior years.

56



146
245

1,010
"3

"3

"5 9
641

INCOME AND EXPENSES, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, BY YEAR, FROM BEGINNING OF OPERATIONS.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1933 TO DECEMBER 31, 1983
(In millions)

Table 127.

Income

Expenses and losses

Total

Assessment
Income

Assessment
Credits

Investment and
other sources'

Total

Deposit insurance
losses and
expenses

T o ta l.....................

$ 19,894.3

$ 15,504.1

$ 6,709.1

$ 11,099.3

$ 4,465.2

$ 2,733.2

1983 ...................
1982 ...................
1981 ...................
1980 ...................
1979 ...................
1978 ...................
1977 ...................
1976 ...................
1975 ...................
1974 ...................
1973 ...................
1972 ...................
1971 ...................
1970 ...................
1969 ...................
1968 ...................
1967 ...................
1966 ...................
1965 ...................
1964 ...................
1963 ...................
1962 ...................
1961 ...................
1960 ...................
1959 ...................
1958 ...................
1957 ...................
1956 ...................
1955 ...................
1954 ...................
1953 ...................
1952 ...................
1951 ...................
1950 ...................
1949 ...................
1948 ...................
1947 ...................
1946 ...................
1945 ...................
1944 ...................
1943 ...................
1942 ...................
1941 ...................
1940 ...................
1939 ...................
1938 ...................
1937 ...................
1936 ...................
1935 ...................
1933-34 ............

2,628.1
2,524.6
2,074.7
1,310.4
1,090.4
952.1
837.8
764.9
689.3
668.1
561.0
467.0
415.3
382.7
335.8
295.0
263.0
241.0
214.6
197.1
181.9
161.1
147.3
144.6
136.5
126.8
117.3
111.9
105.7
99.7
94.2
88.6
83.5
84.8
151.1
145.6
157.5
130.7
121.0
99.3
86.6
69.1
62.0
55.9
51.2
47.7
48.2
43.8
20.8
7.0

164.0
96.2
117.1
521.1
524.6
443.1
411.9
379.6
362.4
285.4
283.4
280.3
241.4
210.0
220.2
202.1
182.4
172.6
158.3
145.2
136.4
126.9
115.5
100.8
99.6
93.0
90.2
87.3
85.4
81.8
78.5
73.7
70.0
68.7

1,577.2
1,511.9
1,152.8
879.6
734.0
585.1
518.4
468.4
410.4
366.1
315.0
278.5
239.5
223.4
191.8
162.6
142.3
129.3
112.4
104.1
97.7
84.6
73.9
65.0
57.9
53.0
48.2
43.7
39.6
37.3
34.0
31.3
29.2
30.6
28.4
26.3
43.1
23.7
27.3
18.4
16.6
12.6
10.6
9.7
10.5
9.4
9.4
8.2
9.3
7.0

Year

1,214.9
1,108.9
1,039.0
951.9
881.0
810.1
731.3
676.1
641.3
587.4
529.4
468.8
417.2
369.3
364.2
334.5
303.1
284.3
260.5
238.2
220.6
203.4
188.9
180.4
178.2
166.8
159.3
155.5
151.5
144.2
138.7
131.0
124.3
122.9
122.7
119.3
114.4
107.0
93.7
80.9
70.0
56.5
51.4
46.2
40.7
38.3
38.8
35.6
11.5
(4)

969.9
999.8
848.1
83.6
93.7
148.94
113.6
212.3“
97.5
159.2
108.2
59.7
60.3
46.0
34.5
29.1
27.3
19.9
22.9
18.4
15.1
13.8
14.8
12.5
12.1
11.6
9.7
9.4
9.0
7.8
7.3
7.8
6.6
7.8
6.4
7.0
9.9
10.0
9.4
9.3
9.8
10.1
10.1
12.9
16.4
11.3
12.2
10.9
11.3
10.0

Interest on
capital stock2

Administrative
and operating
expenses

Net income
added to deposit
insurance fund3

$ 8 0 .6

$1,651.4

$ 15,429.1

834.2
869.9
720.9
(34.6)
13.1
45.6
24.3
31.9
29.8
100.0
53.8
10.1
13.4
3.8
1.0
0.1
2.9
0.1
5.2
2.9
0.7
0.1
1.6
0.1
0.2
0.1
0.3
0.3
0.1
0.1
0.8
1.4
0.3
0.7
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.2
0.5
0.6
3.5
7.2
2.5
3.7
2.6
2.8
0.2

0.6
4.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.6

135.7
129.9
127.2
118.2
106.8
103.3
89.3
180.4s
67.7
59.2
54.4
49.6
46.9
42.2
33.5
29.0
24.4
19.8
17.7
15.5
14.4
13.7
13.2
12.4
11.9
11.6
9.6
9.1
8.7
7.7
7.2
7.0
6.6
6.4
6.1
5.7
5.0
4.1
3.5
3.4
3.8
3.8
3.7
3.6
3.4
3.0
2.7
2.5
2.7
4.25

1,658.2
1,524.8
1,226.6
1,226.8
996.7
803.2
724.2
552.6
591.8
508.9
452.8
407.3
355.0
336.7
301.3
265.9
235.7
221.1
191.7
178.7
166.8
147.3
132.5
132.1
124.4
115.2
107.6
102.5
96.7
91.9
86.9
80.8
76.9
77.0
144.7
138.6
147.6
120.7
111.6
90.0
76.8
59.0
51.9
43.0
34.8
36.4
36.0
32.9
9.5
-3 .0

'Includes $183.7 million of interest and allowable return received on funds advanced to receivership and deposit assumption cases and S287 million of interest on capital notes advanced
to facilitate deposit assumption transactions and assistance to open banks.
2Paid in 1950 and 1951, but allocated among years to which it applied. Initial capital of $289 million was retired by payments to the U.S. Treasury in 1947 and 1948.
Assessments collected from members of the temporary insurance funds which became insured under the permanent plan were credited to their accounts at the termination of the
temporary funds and were applied toward payment of subsequent assessments becoming due under the permanent insurance funding, resulting in no income to the Corporation from
assessments during the existence of the temporary insurance funds.
“Includes net loss on sales of U.S. Government securities of $105.6 million in 1976 and $3.6 million in 1978.
5Net after deducting the portion of expenses and losses charged to banks withdrawing from the temporary insurance funds on June 30,1934.




57

Table 129.

INSURED DEPOSITS AND THE DEPOSIT INSURANCE FUND, 1934-1983 (In millions)

Year
(December 31)

Deposits in insured banks'

Ratio of deposit insurance fund to—

Insurance
Coverage

Total

Insured

Percentage of
insured deposits

Deposit insurance
fund

Total deposits

Insured deposits

19837 ...........................

$100,000

1,690,332

1,268,332

75.0

$15,429.1

.91

1.22

1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

$100,000
100,000
100,000
40,000
40,000*
40,0005
40,000
40,000

1,544,697
1,409,322
1,324,463
1,226,943
1,145,835
1,050,435
941,923
875,985

1,134,221
988,898
948,717
808,555
760,706
692,533
628,263
569,101

73.4
70.2
71.6
65.9
66.4
65.9
66.7
65.0

13,770.9
12,246.1
11,019.5
9,792.7
8,796.0
7,992.8
7,268.8
6,716.0

.89
.87
.83
.80
.77
.76
.77
.77

1.21
1.24
1.16
1.21
1.16
1.15
1.16
1.18

1974
1973
1972
1971
1970

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

40,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000

833,277
766,509
697,480
610,685
545,198

520,309
465,600
419,756
374,568
349,581

62.5
60.7
60.2
61.3
64.1

6,124.2
5,615.3
5,158.7
4,739.9
4,379.6

.73
.73
.74
.78
.80

1.18
1.21
1.23
1.27
1.25

1969
1968
1967
1966
1965

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

20,000
15,000
15,000
15,000
10,000

495,858
491,513
448,709
401,096
377,400

313,085
296,701
261,149
234,150
209,690

63.1
60.2
58.2
58.4
55.6

4,051.1
3,749.2
3,485.5
3,252.0
3,036.3

.82
.76
.78
.81
.80

1.29
1.26
1.33
1.39
1.45

1964
1963
1962
1961
1960

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000

348,981
313,3042
297,5483
281,304
260,495

191,787
177,381
170,210
160,309
149,684

55.0
56.6
57.2
57.0
57.5

2,844.7
2,667.9
2,502.0
2,353.8
2,222.2

.82
.85
.84
.84
.85

1.48
1.50
1.47
1.47
1.48

1959
1958
1957
1956
1955

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000

247,589
242,445
225,507
219,393
212,226

142,131
137,698
127,055
121,008
116,380

57.4
56.8
56.3
55.2
54.8

2,089.8
1,965.4
1,850.5
1,742.1
1,639.6

.84
.81
.82
.79
.77

1.47
1.43
1.46
1.44
1.41

1954
1953
1952
1951
1950

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000

203,195
193,466
188,142
178,540
167,818

110,973
105,610
101,841
96,713
91,359

54.6
54.6
54.1
54.2
54.4

1,542.7
1,450.7
1,363.5
1,282.2
1,243.9

.76
.75
.72
.72
.74

1.39
1.37
1.34
1.33
1.36

1949
1948
1947
1946
1945

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000

156,786
153,454
154,096
148,458
157,174

76,589
75,320
76,254
73,759
67,021

48.8
49.1
49.5
49.7
42.4

1,203.9
1,065.9
1,006.1
1,058.5
929.2

.77
.69
.65
.71
.59

1.57
1.42
1.32
1.44
1.39

1944
1943
1942
1941
1940

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000

134,662
111,650
89,869
71,209
65,288

56,398
48,440
32,837
28,249
26,638

41.9
43.4
36.5
39.7
40.8

804.3
703.1
616.9
553.5
496.0

.60
.63
.69
.78
.76

1.43
1.45
1.88
1.96
1.86

1939
1938
1937
1936
1935
1934

.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.........................

5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,0004

57,485
50,791
48,228
50,281
45,125
40,060

24,650
23,121
22,557
22,330
20,158
18,075

42.9
45.5
46.8
44.4
44.7
45.1

452.7
420.5
383.1
343.4
306.0
291.7

.79
.83
.79
.68
.68
.73

1.84
1.82
1.70
1.54
1.52
1.61

'Deposits in foreign brandies are omitted from totals because they are not insured. Insured deposits are estimated by applying to the deposits in the various types of accounts at the
regular Call dates, the percentages insured as determined from the Summary of Deposits survey submitted by insured banks.
D ecem ber 20, 1963.
3December 28,1962,
^Initial coverage was $2,500 from January 1 to June 30,1934.
55100.000 for time and savings deposits of in-state governmental units provided in 1974.
65100.000 for Individual Retiremenf accounts and Keogh accounts provided in 1978.
'Deposits are bas'ed on preliminary data.

58



INDEX

Deposit Insurance

Applications

Public participation allowed in application
process for establishing and/or relocating
branches

33

Assessments

Assessment credit, 1982
Assessment credit, 1983
Assessment credit as percentage of deposits
Effective assessment rate, 1982
Effective assessment rate, 1983
Gross income from assessments

15
15
15
15
15
15

Atkinson Trust and Savings Bank, Atkinson, Illinois

Deposits transferred to Bank of Atkinson, NA,
First premium paid in deposit transfer

12
12

12

Bank of Atkinson N.A., Atkinson, Illinois

Assumes deposits of Atkinson Trust and Savings Bank

12

Bank Examinations

Breakdown by types
Number of examinations
Reasons for decrease in examinations
Simultaneous examination of Butcher banks

5
5
4
9
10
12
9
9
41
43, 44
43
48
49

32

Branches

Rule change on establishing or relocating

6

Brokered Deposits

Included in reports of condition
Solicitation of comments on proposed rule change

2
35

Butcher Banks

Simultaneous examination
Size of organization
United American Bank, Knoxville, Tennessee

9
9
9
6
6
33

Civil Money Penalties

Number in 1983

7

Cooperative Examinations

Program with OCC




2

Discount Brokerage

Opinion on legality for banks
Cooperative examinations
Examination schedule
Number of States participating

4
8
8
8

Dry Dock Savings Bank, New York, N.Y.

FDIC assisted merger into The Dollar Savings
Bank of New York
Emergency Banking Act

12
44

Enforcement Actions

Availability of summary

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
Federal Reserve Actions

7
48
2
41, 42

Federal Reserve Act

48

Federal Reserve Bank Notes

44

Federal Reserve Open Market Committee, Creation of

48

Financial Assistance to Banks

37

Financial Privacy Act of 1978

Exchange of records among supervisory agencies

34

Financial Statements

Audit opinion by Comptroller General
Complete statements

29
18-28

First National Bank, Midland, Texas

Deposit assumption
Failure on October 14

10
10

Foreign Activities of Banks

Rule change in application process

36

Requirement for special reserves
Financial Privacy Act amended
First extraordinary acquisition
Penalties for management interlock violations
Reporting and Disclosure Rules
Second extraordinary acquisition
Gold

33

32

Gam-St Germain Act

8

Delegation of Authority

Allowing Regional Directors to approve but
not deny routine merger transactions
Allowing certain Division of Bank Supervision
officials to execute and issue cease-and
desist-orders

12

Foreign Loans

Cease-and-Desist Orders

Comparison by years 1980-1983
Number issued, 1983
Delegation of authority to issue

Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee

Policy on providing aid to prevent closing of
a bank other than a mutual savings bank

Board Members, Term of Office

Law permitting sitting members of the Board
of Directors to remain in office until successor
is confirmed by the Senate

Used in two bank failures

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Creation of

Bank Failures

First National Bank, Midland, Texas
Mutual Savings Banks, cost of failures to FDIC
Number of failures in 1983
United American Bank, Knoxville, Tennessee
From 1921 through 1930
Bank Moratoria and Holidays
Banking Crisis of 1933
Banking Act of 1933
Banking Act of 1935

Deposit Transfer

Divided Examinations

Auburn Savings Bank, Auburn, New York

Absorbed by Syracuse Savings Bank in
FDIC-assisted merger

Applications processed (statistics)
5
Applications received
5
Inclusion of accrued or anticipated earnings
as part of insured deposit
35
Legislation
43,45, 46, 48, 49
Rules on termination of insurance
6, 7
Insurance study submitted to Congress
x
Terminations of insurance
7
Variable premiums proposed
xi

34
9
37
2
12
42, 43

Glass, Carter

46

Glass-Steagall Act

43

33

59

Penn Square Bank, NA., Oklahoma City

Income and Expenses

Gross
Gross
Gross
Gross

revenues — income from assessments
revenues — income from investments
expenses — administrative expenses
expenses — in closed banks, mergers

15
15
15
15

Insider Loans

Changes in rules on extension of credit
Credit limits
Rules governing reporting

36
3, 36
33

Insurance Sales by Banks

Involvement of insured banks
Request for comment on bank involvement

3
36

Integrated Monitoring System

15
15
15
x, 15
48
4

Interest

Extraterritorial deposits
Interest earnings as part of deposit for insurance
Rate controls

35
35
2

32

Liquidation Activities

Assets held
Consolidation of field offices
Number of liquidations
Personnel assigned

13
13
13
13

Management Interlocks

FDIC authority to compromise or modify civil
money penalties for violations
Resumption of interlocks after termination

34
37

Mergers

Delegated authority
Procedures simplified

8
7

Money Market Deposit Accounts

Considered as savings deposits

National Credit Corporation

12
47
12
12
12
12
42

Net Worth Certificates

Amount outstanding at year end
Number of institutions holding
Public Law providing for issuance

12
12
32

NOW Accounts

Permitted for some public units

47

60



Number at end of 1983

5

Real Estate Brokerage

Involvement of insured banks
Request for comment on proposed rule

3
36
42

Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Regional Offices

Madison, Wisconsin, office closed

x, 8

Removal of Officer, Director

7

Retail Repurchase Agreements

Time limits removed

35

Seaway National Bank, Chicago, Illinois

Assumes deposits of Union National Bank, Chicago

12

Securities Departments

Number supervised
Technical details on filing of statements
and other rule changes

5
35
52
53
54, 55
56
57
58

Statistical Tables

Table
Table
Table
Table
Table

122
123
125
127
129

44, 45, 46

Syracuse Savings Bank, Syracuse, New York
Task Group on Regulation of Financial Services

12
12

12
3

Termination of Insured Status

Rules governing procedures

34

Travel Agencies

Bank operation of

36

Trust Departments

Applications for fiduciary powers
Dollar volume
Number supervised

5
5
5

Union National Bank of Chicago, Illinois

Deposits transferred to Seaway National

12

United American Bank, Knoxville, Tennessee

Assumption by First Tennessee
Failure on February 15
Vandenberg, Arthur

Oregon Mutual Savings Bank

Converted to stock form of ownership
Acquired by Moore Financial Group, Inc.

6

Acquirer of Auburn Savings Bank, Auburn, New York
12

Mutual Savings Banks

Auburn Savings Bank
Conversion to stock form of ownership
Cost of failures to FDIC
Dry Dock Savings Bank
Failures in 1983
Oregon Mutual Savings Bank

16
16
16
16
16

Problem Banks

Steagall, Henry B.

47

Moore Financial Group, Inc.

Acquirer of Oregon Mutual Savings Bank

Areas of assignment
Breakdown by assignment, 1982-1983
Cooperative work-study program
Total employees
Turnover rate

Reasons, procedures

International Lending

Provision for public disclosure on foreign
borrowing and lending of an individual bank

Personnel

Phantom Mergers

Insurance Fund

Gross revenues for 1983
Investment portfolio
Losses in closed banks and mergers
Size of fund
Temporary fund

Agreement terminating Deposit Insurance National Bank 14
Collections on principal and interest
14
Depositor recovery prospects
14
Disposition of funds
14
Payments to depositors
14

9
9
46

Voluntary Merger Plan

Used in New York

12