What happened to Bank of New England?
The Bank of New England, which grew rapidly as a major regional interstate banking corporation during the 1980s, suffered a catastrophic collapse due to heavy exposure to bad real estate loans during the severe regional property market crash. The institution was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in what became one of the most high-profile banking failures of the era. Federal regulators facilitated a massive government-assisted rescue and restructuring, eventually selling its remaining healthy banking assets to Fleet Bank while liquidating toxic assets through specialized resolution entities.
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