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Four Banks Close Friday, Bringing 2012 Tally to 28

Four banks were shut down Friday, bringing the tally of fallen banks so far this year to 28. The banks were located in Illinois, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

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The ""Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation"":http://www.idfpr.com/ closed Shabbona, Illinois-based ""Farmers and Traders State Bank."":http://www.farmtrader.org/ The failed bank held $43.1 million in assets and $42.3 million in deposits as of the end of the first quarter of the year.

""First State Bank,"":https://www.firststatebank.biz/ based in Mendota, Illinois, entered a purchase and assumption agreement with the ""Federal Deposit Insurance Fund"":http://www.fdic.gov/ (FDIC) to assume all the failed bank's deposits and failed assets.

Farmers and Traders State Bank's failure cost the FDIC $8.9 million.

Costing the FDIC substantially more, the ""Office of the Comptroller of the Currency"":http://www.occ.treas.gov/ (OCC) closed Whiteville, North Carolina-based ""Waccamaw Bank"":http://www.waccamawbank.com/ Friday draining the FDIC of

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about $51.1 million.

Waccamaw held about $533.1 million in assets and $472.7 million in deposits as of the end of the first quarter.

Bluefield, Virginia-based ""First Community Bank"":https://www.fcbresource.com/home.aspx has assumed all of the deposits of Waccamaw and has agreed to purchase $515.3 million of its assets. The remainder will be deposited later by the FDIC.

Additionally, First Community Bank and the FDIC have agreed to a loss-share transaction for $330.6 million of Waccamaw's assets.

Based in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, ""First Capital Bank"":http://fmbankok.com/ shut its doors Friday at the behest of the Oklahoma State Banking Department, and its sole branch reopened Saturday as part of Edmond, Oklahoma-based F&M Bank.

""F&M Bank"":http://www.fmbankok.com/ is assuming all of First Capital's deposits at a price of 7.65 percent and will purchase $40.7 million of its failed assets. The remaining assets will be absorbed by the FDIC, which bears a $5.6 million loss as a result of First Capital's failing.

As of the end of the first quarter, First Capital held $46.1 million in assets and $44.8 million in deposits.

The OCC closed Charleston, South Carolina-based ""Carolina Federal Savings Bank"":http://www.carolinafederal.com/ Friday. Thomasville, North Carolina-based ""Bank of North Carolina"":http://www.bankofnc.com/ agreed to assume all the deposits of the failed bank, which held $54.4 million in assets and $53.1 million in deposits as of the end of March.

Bank of North Carolina will also purchase $41 million of the failed bank's assets, while the FDIC will absorb the rest.

The failure of the Charleston-based bank will cost the FDIC about $15.2 million.

About Author: Krista Franks Brock

Krista Franks Brock is a professional writer and editor who has covered the mortgage banking and default servicing sectors since 2011. Previously, she served as managing editor of DS News and Southern Distinction, a regional lifestyle publication. Her work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including Consumers Digest, Dallas Style and Design, DS News and DSNews.com, MReport and theMReport.com. She holds degrees in journalism and art from the University of Georgia.
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