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56Chevy

09/17/14 12:21 AM

#202 RE: Enterprising Investor #201

Trust-preferred debt lets issuers defer interest payments for five years, after which point creditors can demand full repayment. About 240 community banks have reached the end of the five-year deferral period for trust-preferred debt, and another 200 are nearing the end. Many of them, like Albina, are under regulatory orders barring them from paying trust-preferred creditors.

Caught between creditors demanding payment and regulators forbidding it, many community banks have found themselves left with no option but bankruptcy. In these cases, the bank is sold at auction to pay the holding company's debts.

Big red flags here. Thanx for the post.