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What happened to Temecula Valley Bank?
Temecula Valley Bank in Temecula, CA (earlier called Temecula Valley Bank, National Association) failed, and First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company of Raleigh, NC took it over on Jul 17, 2009. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company 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.
- 1996Temecula Valley Bank, National Association opens in Temecula, CA
- Jun 29, 2005renamed Temecula Valley Bank
- Jul 17, 2009FAILEDTemecula Valley Bank failed, and First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company of Raleigh, NC took it over.FDIC certificate 34341 ends; its business continues under certificate 11063.
- TodayOPEN
First-Citizens Bank & Trust CompanyMain office Raleigh, NC · FDIC certificate 11063 · 518 offices in 23 states on June 30, 2026Every First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.firstcitizens.com
If you still have something from Temecula Valley Bank
A lien that was never released
Temecula Valley Bank failed on Jul 17, 2009. 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 First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, 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, First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company). Start with First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, and ask them to search under the name Temecula Valley Bank.
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 First-Citizens Bank & 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. 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
13 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 4 are still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 41520 Ivy StMurrieta, CA | OpenFirst-Citizens Bank & Trust Company |
| 16536 Bernardo Center DrSan Diego, CA | OpenFirst-Citizens Bank & Trust Company |
| 1120 El Camino AveCorona, CA | OpenFirst-Citizens Bank & Trust Company |
| 175 W Main StEl Cajon, CA | OpenFirst-Citizens Bank & Trust Company |
| 40820 Winchester Road, Suite 1160Temecula, CA | No longer reported |
| 44575 Avenida De MissionesTemecula, CA | No longer reported |
| 27710 Jefferson Avenue, Suites #a100 and #a200Temecula, CA | No longer reported |
| 3595 Inland Empire Boulevard Suite 2100Ontario, CA | No longer reported |
| 360 W Grand AveEscondido, CA | No longer reported |
| 1139 South Mission Road, Suite AFallbrook, CA | No longer reported |
| 730 Nordahl Road, Suite 104San Marcos, CA | No longer reported |
| 1830 Marron Rd., Suite 124Carlsbad, CA | No longer reported |
| 985 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Suite DSolana Beach, CA | 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 34341 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.