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Maine National Bank, Portland, ME: failed January 6, 1991

Maine National Bank in Portland, Maine, failed on January 6, 1991. New Maine National Bank of Portland, ME, took over its deposits. It held $1.05 billion in assets and $944.7 million in deposits at its last report. By assets it was the 31st largest of 271 banks closed or assisted in 1991.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
January 6, 1991
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Acquirer
New Maine National Bank, Portland, ME
Total assets
$1,045,658,000
Total deposits
$944,665,000
Charter
National bank (supervised by the OCC)
Insurance fund
BIF
FDIC certificate
4275

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in Maine, 1989 to 1993

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
First FsaLewistonMay 21, 1992$83 million$76.3 million$11.8 millionKingfield SB
Maine Savings BankPortlandFebruary 1, 1991$1.18 billion$1.19 billion$184.2 millionFleet Bank of Maine
American FSBSanfordJanuary 11, 1990$51.8 million$39.8 million$14.2 million

All bank failures in 1991 · All bank failures in Maine · The full failed bank list

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.