Anatomy of a Banking Scandal The Keystone Bank Failure-Harbinger of the 2008 Financial Crisis [#506062]

Robert Pasley, "Anatomy of a Banking Scandal: The Keystone Bank Failure-Harbinger of the 2008 Financial Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1412862795 | 2016 | 368 pages | EPUB | 1369 KB
In the early 1990s, the First National Bank of Keystone in West Virginia began buying and securitizing subprime mortgages from all over the country, and quickly grew from a tiny bank with just $100 million in assets to over $1.1 billion. For three years, it was listed as the most profitable large community bank in the country. It was all a fraud. All of the securitization deals the bank entered into lost money. To hide that fact, bank insiders started cooking the books, and concealing that they were also embezzling millions of dollars from the bank.