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FDIC certificate 30907 · Baton Rouge, LA

What happened to First Federal Savings and Loan Association?

First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Baton Rouge, LA was closed in a federal resolution, and its business passed to Life Savings Bank, F.S.B. of Baton Rouge, LA on Aug 17, 1990. After 2 more changes of hands, what was First Federal Savings and Loan Association is today part of Liberty Bank and Trust Company (New Orleans, LA).

1956
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1990
failed
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name it used
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steps to today's bank

The chain, step by step

From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.

  1. 1956
    First Federal Savings and Loan Association opens in Baton Rouge, LA
  2. Aug 17, 1990
    RESOLVEDFirst Federal Savings and Loan Association was closed in a federal resolution, and its business passed to Life Savings Bank, F.S.B. of Baton Rouge, LA.FDIC certificate 30907 ends; its business continues under certificate 33186. The FDIC's failure list dates the failure Mar 16, 1989.
  3. Jan 29, 1993
    FAILEDLife Savings Bank, F.S.B. of Baton Rouge, LA failed, and Life Federal Savings Bank of Baton Rouge, LA took it over.FDIC certificate 33186 ends; its business continues under certificate 33775.
  4. Mar 25, 1994
    RESOLVEDLife Federal Savings Bank of Baton Rouge, LA was closed in a federal resolution, and its business passed to Liberty Bank and Trust Company of New Orleans, LA.FDIC certificate 33775 ends; its business continues under certificate 20856.
  5. Today
    OPEN
    Liberty Bank and Trust CompanyMain office New Orleans, LA · FDIC certificate 20856 · 15 offices in 8 states on June 30, 2026

    Every Liberty Bank and Trust Company office →   Website on file with the FDIC: www.libertybank.net

If you still have something from First Federal Savings and Loan Association

A lien that was never released

First Federal Savings and Loan Association failed on Mar 16, 1989, handled by the Resolution Trust Corporation, the agency that closed failed savings institutions from 1989 to 1995. The FDIC's lien-release page covers failed banks and savings and loans placed in FDIC receivership; it does not say how releases work for resolutions this old.

Call FDIC Resolution Inquiries at 888-206-4662 (8am–4pm Central, weekdays) and ask whether the FDIC holds this institution's receivership. Ask Liberty Bank and Trust Company as well: the chain above leads there. The FDIC's own instructions are at FDIC, Obtaining a Lien Release.

An old account, passbook or CD

When a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, insured depositors become its customers right away (here, Life Savings Bank, F.S.B.). Start with Liberty Bank and Trust Company, and ask them to search under the name First Federal Savings and Loan Association.

This failure is older than the current federal rule on unclaimed deposits (mid-1993), so different rules apply. Search FDIC unclaimed funds search, search the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records, and ask FDIC Resolution Inquiries at 888-206-4662 what applies to this institution.

A safe deposit box

The FDIC says that when a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, the branches usually reopen the next business day with box access. Today, ask Liberty Bank and Trust Company. A box abandoned for years may have been turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.

Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.

Not sure this is your bank?

Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.

Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.

One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain.

This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.

Where the guidance comes from ▾

Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 30907 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.