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Archive Home > 2010 > January > 31 > Why capital matters to banks

Why capital matters to banks

Explaining assets and liabilities, and what closed two area banks in the past year

By Andrew Moore / The Bulletin
January 31, 2010

When Columbia River Bank was ordered closed Jan. 22 by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, the state said the bank had been “experiencing critically low levels of capital, and ultimately, became insolvent.”

Immediately after the closure, the bank was sold by the Federal....

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