Articles Tagged with Doral Bank

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced that The Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of Puerto Rico has shut down Doral Bank in San Juan. The FDIC is now the bank’s receiver. Many investors have lost money through the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund.

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico has now purchased $3.25 billion of Doral’s assets to acquire the defunct bank’s operations, including its deposits. A day after Doral shuttered its doors, 26 of its former branches reopened. Eight of them are now run by Banco Popular (OTCMKTS: BPESY), which resold the other 18 branches and their deposits to FirstBank Puerto Rico, Banco Popular North America, and Centennial Bank. The latter two now run Doral’s U.S. branches.

Doral Bank had approximately $5.9 billion in overall assets and $4.1 billion in deposits ending in 2014. Regulators determined that it was “critically under-capitalized.” After the FDIC notified the bank that it wouldn’t be able to use a $229 million tax refund for its Tier 1 capital, it was unable to raise more capital.