Anatomy of a Banking Scandal: The Keystone Bank Failure-Harbinger of the 2008 Financial Crisis

by Robert S. Pasley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412863341
• ISBN13: 9781412863346
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"