Financial institutions strengthen, but problems persist.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a review of Federal Reserve Board and Office of Thrift Supervision The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) was established as a bureau of the Treasury Department in August 1989 as part of a major Reorganization Plan of the thrift regulatory structure mandated by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) (12 U.S.C.A. call report data for the fourth quarter of 1992 conducted by Veribanc, Inc., most of the nation's financial institutions continued to recover. However, some problems still exist at a number of chronically weak banks and thrift institutions Thrift institution An organization formed as a depository for primarily consumer savings. Savings and loan associations and savings banks are thrift institutions. . Commercial banks. For the nation's 11,983 commercial banks, 1992 was a banner year. Total problem loans declined to $80.6 billion from $95.3 billion at the end of 1991, while loan loss reserves dropped narrowly to $56.5 billion from $57.5 billion. As a result, loss reserve coverage for the banking system improved. While the number of undercapitalized Undercapitalized A business has insufficient capital to carry out its normal functions. undercapitalized Of, relating to, or being a firm that has insufficient long-term equity to support its assets. banks rose slightly to 127 from 125 at the end of 1991, the number of significantly undercapitalized banks dropped to 53 from 84 at yearend 1991. More important, the number of critically undercapitalized banks declined to only 12 from 99 in the previous year. As one result of the improved capitalization, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), an independent U.S. federal executive agency designed to promote public confidence in banks and to provide insurance coverage for bank deposits up to $100,000. predicted some 30 to 60 banks would fail in 1993, compared with 121 bank failures in 1992 and 127 in 1991. Bank failures reached a high of more than 200 in the 1980s. Thrift institutions. In 1992, the thrift industry faced sharply differing prospects. The nation's 1,872 privately owned thrifts continued to strengthen, but losses at the 81 government-controlled institutions operated by the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC See real time clock. ) grew dramatically in the latter months of the year. Net income for privately owned thrifts reached $5.1 billion in 1992, but RTC-controlled institutions lost a total of $3 billion, with half of the loss occurring in the fourth quarter. Nonperforming assets Nonperforming asset An asset that is not effectively producing income, such as an overdue loan. nonperforming asset An asset that produces no income. amounted to only 5.3% of the assets of privately owned thrifts but made up 12% of the assets of the RTC-controlled associations. The 1,872 privately owned thrifts currently in operation compare with a high of 3,252 federally insured thrift institutions operating in 1985, just before the crisis began. Veribanc expects the shrinkage will continue as the result of additional mergers, failures and conversions of thrift institutions to savings banks. |
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