The Iowa Superintendent of Banking has closed a Sac City bank — the first bank closing in Iowa since 2011.
Citizens Bank in Sac City opened in 1929. According to a news release issued Friday night by the Iowa Banking Division, the bank was declared insolvent after bank examiners “identified significant loan losses that previously had not been identified” by the Sac City bank. The news release said the bank had a “concentration” of out-of-state loans “to one industry: and there had been “heavy losses on some of those loans.”
The state banking superintendent’s office said there will be no loss to any depositor. Iowa Trust and Savings Bank in Emmetsburg has purchased all deposits and is…
