United Commercial Bank Goes Down

United Commercial Bank of San Francisco has bitten the dust. The FDIC took over UCB on Friday. United Commercial Bank got into a lot of trouble with its commercial real estate loan portfolio recently, taking hits on loans made on assets such as Vietnam Town, and Cupertino Square/Vallco Mall. It has significant assets however, including its office building in San Francisco and other loans.

East West Bank is the acquiring bank and has entered into a loss share agreement with the FDIC. East West is acquiring the deposits, and the loan portfolio. 26 of the bank’s 63 branches are located in Northern California.

United Commercial Bank, San Francisco, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with East West Bank, Pasadena, California, to assume all of the deposits of United Commercial Bank. This agreement included all U.S. branches of United Commercial Bank, the Hong Kong branch of United Commercial Bank, and the subsidiary of United Commercial Bank headquartered in Shanghai, China, United Commercial Bank (UCB-China).

The 63 U.S. branches of United Commercial Bank will reopen during their normal business hours beginning tomorrow as branches of East West Bank.

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As of October 23, 2009, United Commercial Bank had total assets of $11.2 billion and total deposits of approximately $7.5 billion. East West Bank paid the FDIC a premium of 1.1 percent for the right to assume all of the deposits of United Commercial Bank. In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank, East West Bank agreed to purchase approximately $10.2 billion in assets of the failed bank. As part of the purchase and assumption agreement, the FDIC transferred to East West Bank all qualified financial contracts to which United Commercial Bank was a party and those contracts remain in full force and effect.

The FDIC and East West Bank entered into a loss-share transaction on approximately $7.7 billion of United Commercial Bank’s assets. East West Bank will share in the losses on the asset pools covered under the loss-share agreement.

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