Weiss Ratings News Briefs


Patriot Bank Minnesota shuttered by regulators

01/31/2012

Minnesota regulators closed Patriot Bank Minnesota in Forest Lake on Friday, January 27. With assets of $111.3 million at September 30, the bank was rated E- ("Very Weak") by Weiss at the time of failure and was first identified as "Weak" in December 2008. It reported a loss of more than $5 million through the nine months ended September 30, 2011. It had below-FDIC-mandated Tier 1 (5%) and risk-based capital (6%) ratios of 1.85% and 3.43%, respectively, and nonperforming loans represented 9.5% of its loan portfolio.

First Resource Bank, Savage, Minnesota, with assets of $14.9 million and a Weiss Financial Strength Rating of C ("Fair"), assumed the deposits of Patriot Bank. First Resource has high Tier 1 and risk-based capital ratios of 64.68% and 107.27%, respectively. It has an above-average nonperforming-loans-to-total-loans ratio of 9.54% and lost $335,000 through September 30, 2011 for an ROA of -2.34%, well-below the industry average of 0.94%.