Urban Partnership Bank, the $1.4 billion-asset successor to the failed ShoreBank, has hired Maureen Bismark as its legal department’s new assistant general counsel. Get the full story »
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Sep. 2, 2010 at 11:22 a.m.
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Filed under: Bank failures, Banking, Consumer news, Investing ShoreBank successor boosts online savings rates
Urban Partnership Bank, the successor to the recently failed ShoreBank, has already boosted the interest rates on a couple of savings accounts for its online ShoreBank Direct.
The ShoreBank Direct Online Savings Account now pays a 1.25 percent annual percentage rate with a $100,000 minimum balance, up from 1.19 percent. It also pays 1.2 percent for balances of less than $100,000, up from 1.03 percent.
The rate hikes were first reported by www.depositaccounts.com, a tracker of bank account trends. Get the full story »
ShoreBank’s buyer lays off 60 employees
An exterior view of ShoreBank at 3401 S. King Drive on the South Side, May 18, 2010. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune)
The company that bought ShoreBank has cut about 60 of the more than 300 positions at the recently failed South Side lender.
Urban Partnership Bank, the newly formed group that on Aug. 20 acquired ShoreBank through a deal brokered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said the job cuts were “a difficult decision.”
But “a smaller workforce is needed going forward in order for Urban Partnership Bank to continue the mission and to be a strong, sustainable player in our communities,” said Brian Berg, spokesman for Urban Partnership Bank. Get the full story »
ShoreBank shut down by FDIC
An exterior view of ShoreBank at 3401 S. King Drive on the South Side, May 18, 2010. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune)
ShoreBank, which billed itself as the nation’s first and leading community development and environmental lender, failed Friday and was acquired by a consortium of big banks, insurers, philanthropic groups and civic-minded individuals.
ShoreBank is the 15th Illinois lender to fail this year, and the 114th to be seized by regulators nationally.
Its failure is expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $367.7 million. The FDIC is funded by the banking industry. Get the full story »
ShoreBank failure 50-50, Fox reports
Officials at troubled ShoreBank see the odds as 50-50 that the lender will fail and be taken over by the government.
