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...deposits to $2.30 from 1991 until 1994, after which it would decline to $1.80. The rate for banks would increase too, from 83 cents per $1,000 to $1.20 in 1990 and $1.50 thereafter. Even though both industries' insurance funds would be administered by the FDIC, their proceeds will be kept separate...
Bankers were miffed too about being tied up with the S & Ls. The symbolic point of contention was the trusted FDIC decal that banks display prominently on their premises and in their advertising. The Administration at first told thrift owners that they would be able to display the symbol under the new plan. To many depositors, the seal represents greater safety and security than the thrift industry's own logo. Bankers therefore vociferously oppose sharing the FDIC seal, maintaining that it would be effectively tarnished if given to the thrifts and would lead to the complete merging...
...FDIC wasted no time in wielding its new authority over the thrifts. Within a day after the Bush announcement, the Government agency took charge of four insolvent S & Ls and three days later assumed control of six more. The agency intends to take over the 224 most hopelessly insolvent S & Ls within the next month. The FDIC also decided to freeze temporarily all negotiations for the sale of ailing thrifts. Last year the FSLIC completed a flurry of deals -- 34 in December alone -- in an effort to offer investors tax breaks that expired on Dec. 31. Because of the rich...
Seidman said talks with investors will resume after the FDIC takes control of the remaining insolvent S & Ls. But since the FDIC said it would then allow only deals that were supported by the cash of the FSLIC -- a fund that is currently bankrupt -- more Government-assisted sales would seem unlikely. The FDIC might also try to renegotiate some of last year's sweet deals...
Last week Great Western announced that it would try to escape the FSLIC burden by applying for coverage from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which protects commercial banks. Since banking problems have not become as severe as the S and L crisis, the FDIC has not raised its premiums as much as the FSLIC and would charge the California institution only $17 million. Congress passed a law in 1987 prohibiting most federally insured S and Ls from abandoning the FSLIC, but Great Western's executives plan to circumvent the ban by merging with a Washington State savings bank that...