FirstCity Bank in Stockbridge was closed Friday by state regulators, becoming the eighth Georgia bank to fail in the past seven months.
The small bank, founded in 1905, collapsed amid a rising tide of bad loans tied to the battered real estate market. Last year, FirstCity lost $8.3 million and reported $24.5 million in non-performing loans, a four-fold increase from the year before.
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