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What happened to Westernbank Puerto Rico?
Westernbank Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, PR (earlier called Western Federal Savings Bank) failed, and Banco Popular de Puerto Rico of San Juan, PR took it over on Apr 30, 2010. Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is open today.
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.
- 1958Western Federal Savings Bank opens in Mayaguez, PR
- Nov 30, 1994renamed Westernbank Puerto Rico
- Apr 30, 2010FAILEDWesternbank Puerto Rico failed, and Banco Popular de Puerto Rico of San Juan, PR took it over.FDIC certificate 31027 ends; its business continues under certificate 34968.
- TodayOPEN
Banco Popular de Puerto RicoMain office San Juan, PR · FDIC certificate 34968 · 163 offices in 2 states on June 30, 2026Every Banco Popular de Puerto Rico office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.popular.com
If you still have something from Westernbank Puerto Rico
A lien that was never released
Westernbank Puerto Rico failed on Apr 30, 2010. For a failed bank placed in FDIC receivership, the FDIC may be able to issue the lien release, if the loan was paid off to the bank before it failed or to the FDIC afterward. The FDIC says that where a failed bank had an acquirer, its records in most cases went to that acquirer. Here the chain from the acquirer leads to Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, which is worth asking too.
Requests go through the FDIC Information and Support Center with the recorded mortgage or title, and proof of payoff. The FDIC says to allow 30 business days once it has every document, and does not take requests by phone or email. Questions: FDIC Resolution Inquiries, 888-206-4662, 8am–4pm Central on weekdays.
An old account, passbook or CD
When a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, insured depositors become its customers right away (here, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico). Start with Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, and ask them to search under the name Westernbank Puerto Rico.
For failures since mid-1993 the law sets a clock: insured deposits not claimed within 18 months of the FDIC starting to pay depositors are offered to the state of the depositor's last known address on the bank's records. If the state takes them, the owner has 10 years to claim there before the money returns to the FDIC. Check FDIC unclaimed funds search and that state's unclaimed-property program.
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 Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. 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. The office list below shows which bank each office reports under now.
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 ▾
Its offices in the FDIC deposit reports
70 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 6 are still open as of June 30, 2026. Showing 40.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| State Road #100Cabo Rojo, PR | OpenBanco Popular de Puerto Rico |
| Plaza Centro Ii 30a St. Degetau Ave.Caguas, PR | OpenBanco Popular de Puerto Rico |
| Carr 2 KM 222.4 Centro, Comercial Town CenterPonce, PR | OpenBanco Popular de Puerto Rico |
| 454 Comercio Street, Old San JuanSan Juan, PR | OpenBanco Popular de Puerto Rico |
| Aguadilla MallAguadilla, PR | OpenBanco Popular de Puerto Rico |
| 99 Calle PimentelRio Grande, PR | OpenBanco Popular de Puerto Rico |
| 1537 Ponce De Leon AvenueRio Piedras, PR | No longer reported |
| Galeria Condado, 100 Avenida Robert H. ToddSan Juan, PR | No longer reported |
| 269 Ponce De Leon AvenueHato Rey, PR | No longer reported |
| 269 Ponce De Leon AvenueHato Rey, PR | No longer reported |
| Yauco Plaza Ii Shopping Center, StatYauco, PR | No longer reported |
| Rexville Town Center, Road #167 Km.060 Bo, PajarosBayamon, PR | No longer reported |
| Santa Rosa Mall, State #2Bayamon, PR | No longer reported |
| 67 65 Infanteria St.Lajas, PR | No longer reported |
| 3 Munoz Rivera StreetFajardo, PR | No longer reported |
| Berrios Mall, State Road #172, Km 49.7Cidra, PR | No longer reported |
| 22 Del Carmen StreetMorovis, PR | No longer reported |
| 206 Moca AvenueMoca, PR | No longer reported |
| Triumph Plaza Shopping CenterHumacao, PR | No longer reported |
| Altamira Chopping Center, Ave Jesus T Pinero, Int Expreso Martinez NadGuaynabo, PR | No longer reported |
| Guaynabo Plaza Local B-1000 MartinezGuaynabo, PR | No longer reported |
| Urb. Caparra Hills Bloque B, Lote 9-10 Ortegon StGuaynabo, PR | No longer reported |
| Mu?oz Rivera and Hermita StreetLares, PR | No longer reported |
| Road #3, Belz Outlet Shopping Center Bo. PuebloCanovanas, PR | No longer reported |
| 167 San Justo St.Quebradillas, PR | No longer reported |
| Marbella Shopping CenterAguadilla, PR | No longer reported |
| 3 Angel G Martinez StreetSabana Grande, PR | No longer reported |
| Campo Rico Ave Country ClubCarolina, PR | No longer reported |
| Plaza Carolina MallCarolina, PR | No longer reported |
| Villa Blanca Plaza, State Road #1Caguas, PR | No longer reported |
| 20 Carbonell St.Cabo Rojo, PR | No longer reported |
| 591 Tuque Industrial ParkPonce, PR | No longer reported |
| 880 Tito Castro Ave. Ste. 102Ponce, PR | No longer reported |
| Plaza Rincon, Pr 115Rincon, PR | No longer reported |
| State Road #112 and Juan Hemandez Ave.Isabela, PR | No longer reported |
| 64 65th Infantry AvenueAnasco, PR | No longer reported |
| #58 Mu?oz Rivera StreetCamuy, PR | No longer reported |
| Nativo Alers Ave. Desvio SurAguada, PR | No longer reported |
| Guatemala Ward, Pr 111, Int. 446San Sebastian, PR | No longer reported |
| 53 Calle Mckinley EastMayaguez, PR | No longer reported |
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 31027 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.