FBOP Corporation


FBOP Corporation was a financial services company based in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. As of mid-2009, it had $18.5 billion in assets and was the 46th largest bank holding company in the United States. On October 30, 2009, FBOP's banking subsidiaries were closed by their chartering agencies and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was appointed as their receiver. The company had over 4064 employees.
The holding company began as First Bank of Oak Park. FBOP started acquiring other banks in 1990. In 2006, First Bank of Oak Park merged with four other co-owned banks in Illinois to create Park National Bank. FBOP operated banks in Illinois, California, Texas, and Arizona, prior to their closure.
U.S. Bancorp acquired all nine of FBOP's nine banks on the day of closure, but later sold the three Texas-based banks to Prosperity Bancshares.

Key people

Acquisition history

DateAcquisitionAsset Size
05/31/90Regency Savings Bank, FSB$325
01/29/91Citizens National Bank of Chicago$20
05/17/91Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust$110
11/06/92Republic Federal Savings Bank$250
02/28/93Madisonville State Bank$100
03/18/94Irving Federal Savings Bank$72
01/01/95Citizens National Bank$25
03/31/95North Houston Bank$72
06/30/95International Savings Bank$250
04/12/96San Diego Branches of California Federal Bank, FSB$386
07/01/96Torrance Bank, SSB$107
11/01/96TOPA Savings Bank and TOPA Thrift and Loan$525
01/24/97Dean Witter Trust, FSB$13
02/28/97San Diego National Bank$229
01/07/99Pullman Bank and Trust Company$525
04/30/99Calumet Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chicago$495
07/19/99Sterling Savings Bank$9
09/12/99Chicago City Bank and Trust Company$176
02/18/00Los Padres Savings Bank$65
04/30/01Peoples Bank of California$3,228
12/31/01Fidelity Federal Bank$2,315
09/20/02Sterling Bank$12
09/30/02BankUSA$116
01/13/03Park National Bank and Trust of Chicago$246
11/07/03Continental Community Bank$12
07/01/04California Savings Bank$864
01/02/07United Community Bank of Lisle$273
10/01/07Cardunal Savings Bank, FSB$180

Bank failure

FBOP's subsidiaries lost an estimated $800 million when the United States Treasury placed government-sponsored mortgage investors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship and wiped out preferred stockholders. As a result, FBOP posted an operating loss of $708 million for 2008. By the end of June, FBOP's resources had dwindled so low that the firm ranked below 98% of similar bank holding companies in terms of tier 1 leverage ratio, a measure of bank capital.
In August 2009, FBOP signed a so-called written agreement with the Federal Reserve that gave it a schedule to raise capital, improve risk management and reduce its concentration of commercial real estate loans. The bank was to submit a capital plan within 30 days.
FBOP failed to raise enough capital to satisfy the terms of the agreement. On October 30, 2009, FBOP's subsidiaries were closed by their chartering agencies and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was appointed as their receiver. The FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Minnesota-based U.S. Bancorp to assume the assets and deposit liabilities of the closed banks. The FDIC estimates its losses on the combined transaction at $2.5 billion.