Word: republicbank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial community gasped last month when the U.S. Government had to prop up First RepublicBank of Dallas with $1 billion, but the true magnitude of the bank's problems was not evident until last week. Awash in bad real estate and energy loans, the bank projected a loss of $1.5 billion in the first three months of 1988, the second largest quarterly deficit in U.S. banking history. (Citicorp lost $2.5 billion in the second quarter...
...Albert Casey, 68, who steered once troubled American Airlines back on course as chairman from 1974 to 1985. American had been laden with many layers of unnecessary staff and subsidiaries. Says Casey: "I fired them all and cleaned them out." He may have to be as ruthless at First RepublicBank...
...Texas, troubled banks are becoming almost as common as tumbleweed. Last week Dallas-based First RepublicBank, the state's largest bank holding company (assets: $33.2 billion), skidded to the brink of failure and was forced to go, ten-gallon hat in hand, to the U.S. Government. Within two days the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation advanced $1 billion to keep First RepublicBank's 73-member banks in business. At the same time, Houston's ailing First City Bancorp, the fourth largest banking company in the state, reported that its plan for returning to financial health was in jeopardy. The problems encountered...
...travails at First RepublicBank began last year, when the company, then called RepublicBank, acquired another Dallas firm, InterFirst, which was on the verge of collapse. InterFirst seemed salvageable, but its loan portfolio was in worse shape than RepublicBank assumed. As a result, First RepublicBank last year lost $657 million. Says Paul Horvitz, a professor at the University of Houston: "The merger may turn out to have been the worst business decision ever made." Worried First RepublicBank's depositors have pulled some $2 billion out of their accounts this year. If First Republic were to fail, it could cost the FDIC...
When Placid Oil filed for Chapter 11 protection two weeks ago, the company listed debts of $979.3 million against assets of $2.05 billion. The move was a last-resort effort to prevent the company's 23 lenders, including Houston's Texas Commerce Bank and RepublicBank of Dallas, from foreclosing on such Hunt assets as oil and gas leases and real estate. Thus the banks and the Hunts are now battling for control of the family's remaining wealth...