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Fidelity Bank, Utica, MS: failed September 28, 1979
Fidelity Bank in Utica, Mississippi, failed on September 28, 1979. It held $32.8 million in assets and $30.2 million in deposits at its last report. By assets it was the largest of 10 banks closed or assisted in 1979.
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The FDIC's record
- Closed
- September 28, 1979
- Type
- Failure
- How it was resolved
- Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
- Total assets
- $32,818,000
- Total deposits
- $30,223,000
- Charter
- State nonmember bank (FDIC)
- Insurance fund
- FDIC
- FDIC certificate
- 8249
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Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-24. 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.