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Deborah Wright has likely never been as happy to be a New Yorker as she is this week. Carver Bancorp, a struggling thrift company where Wright is the CEO, managed to bring in $55M in capital in a deal led by many of the city's heavyweights.
June 30
Carver Bancorp Inc. in New York reported a loss of $700,000 for its fiscal third quarter, as the recapitalized company took steps to mark down its problems assets.
A year earlier, the $670 million-asset Carver reported a loss of $8.2 million for the quarter that ended Dec. 31, 2010.
Carver's provision for loan losses was $100,000, compared to $6.2 million a year earlier and chargeoffs were $1.1 million, down 52% from a year earlier. Its loan-loss provision was offset by a $1.7 million recovery on a construction loan.
The company's noninterest income was $600,000, down 68% from a year earlier, largely because of $500,000 of valuation adjustments taken on the company's held for sale loans.
Carver's nonperforming assets totaled $93.9 million, down 21% from the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2011.
In June, the then-adequately capitalized Carver Federal Savings Bank was given a lifeline when its holding company was