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American Bank & Trust, Orangeburg, SC: failed September 20, 1974
American Bank & Trust in Orangeburg, South Carolina, failed on September 20, 1974. It held $147.1 million in assets and $112.7 million in deposits at its last report. By assets it was the 2nd largest of 4 banks closed or assisted in 1974.
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The FDIC's record
- Closed
- September 20, 1974
- Type
- Failure
- How it was resolved
- Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
- Total assets
- $147,137,000
- Total deposits
- $112,703,000
- Charter
- State nonmember bank (FDIC)
- Insurance fund
- FDIC
- FDIC certificate
- 11543
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Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-23. Assets and deposits are as of the last report before failure; the estimated cost is the FDIC's latest estimate of the loss to its insurance fund and changes as the receivership winds down. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0.