New data shows insider loans spiked at Crescent Bank during credit crisis
The former Myrtle Beach-based Crescent Bank gave its officers and directors a record number of insider loans during a period when credit had dried up for most consumers and the bank was borrowing millions from the federal government to weather a nationwide financial crisis, according to data released by the Federal Reserve Bank.
Crescent Bank – which merged with Community FirstBank on July 29 to become CresCom Bank – borrowed as much as $66 million at one time from the Fed’s lending programs – mostly its discount window – during a 10-month period between Aug. 18, 2008, and June 18, 2009, according to a review of the federal data by The Sun News.
The Fed loans – which were separate from the agency’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP – were supposed to help banks deal with cash crunches, thereby freeing up money to make new loans to customers during a period when credit markets had dried up following the national real estate crash and in the wake of the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy.
Insider loans buoyed 2 new banks
While the dollar amount of insider loans made at most Horry County-based banks has been shrinking since the height of the recession, a pair of banks born during this area's real estate bust - South Atlantic Bank and Coastal Carolina National Bank - have increased the amount of funds available to their directors, executives and principal shareholders, according to federal data.
“Such lending helped support the continued flow of credit to American families and businesses,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a Dec. 6 letter to Congress.
Crescent Bank’s total loan portfolio, however, shrank as it was getting loans meant to help spur lending.
“Late 2008 through 2009 was a very volatile time in our industry, liquidity was tight and the [Federal Reserve Bank’s] discount window was utilized by many, many healthy banks in our country as a source of funding,” said David Morrow, chief executive officer at Crescent Bank and now CresCom Bank.
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The former Beach First National Bank – which was shut down by the FDIC in April 2010 – took two loans in late 2008 with a maximum indebtedness of $12 million. Its insider loan total grew by 1.7 percent in the quarter it took the loans.
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