Data / Bank failures / 1988 / Tri-Cities Savings and Loan
Tri-Cities Savings and Loan, Kennewick, WA: received FDIC assistance April 11, 1988
Tri-Cities Savings and Loan in Kennewick, Washington, received open bank assistance from the FDIC on April 11, 1988. It held $53.1 million in assets and $43.8 million in deposits at its last report. The FDIC estimates the cost to its insurance fund at $14.2 million (26.7% of its assets). By assets it was the 267th largest of 470 banks closed or assisted in 1988.
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The FDIC's record
- Closed
- April 11, 1988
- Type
- Open bank assistance
- How it was resolved
- Open bank assistance: the FDIC assisted the bank without closing it
- Acquirer
- Sterling Savings of Spokane, Spokane, WA
- Total assets
- $53,148,000
- Total deposits
- $43,786,000
- Estimated cost to the FDIC
- $14,176,000 (estimate as of July 31, 2026)
- Charter
- Savings and loan association
- Insurance fund
- FSLIC
- FDIC certificate
- 31950
Other bank failures in Washington, 1986 to 1990
| Bank | City | Closed | Assets | Deposits | Estimated cost | Acquirer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier FS & La | Walla Walla | February 23, 1990 | $146.9 million | $120 million | $9,856 | Washington Mutual |
| Gibraltar Savings Bank, FSB | Seattle | March 31, 1989 | $1.68 billion | $1.37 billion | $59,301 | |
| Community First Fed Savings (assistance) | Vancouver | December 15, 1988 | $386 million | $308.1 million | $73.3 million | American Home Savings A FSB |
| Eastern Washington S&LA (assistance) | Wenatchee | December 14, 1988 | $51.5 million | $32.3 million | $1.1 million | First W FS&LA of Wenatchee |
| First of Longview (assistance) | Longview | August 2, 1988 | $78.1 million | $76.3 million | $13.6 million | First FS&LA |
| Lynnwood S&LA (assistance) | Lynnwood | June 24, 1988 | $24.1 million | $24.9 million | $3.7 million | World S&LA America Fed S&L |
| The Liberty Bank of Seattle | Seattle | June 17, 1988 | $19.1 million | $20.6 million | $8.4 million | Emerald City Bank |
| Home S&LA (assistance) | Seattle | March 13, 1987 | $150.6 million | $117.6 million | $25.9 million | Interwest Savings Bank |
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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.