Pulaski Savings Bank of Chicago is the first bank to fail in 2025.
The $49.5 million bank was closed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as receiver. The FDIC sold the bank’s $42.7 million of deposits to Millennium Bank of Des Plaines, Ill.
Millennium also agreed to buy about $45 million of the failed bank’s assets.
The FDIC estimated that the failure would cost the Deposit Insurance Fund about $28.5 million. The agency said that “suspected fraud” caused the higher estimated cost to the DIF.
Performance Trust Capital Partners advised Millennium.
The previous bank to fail was First National Bank of Lindsay in Oklahoma, which was closed in October.