"Carver Federal Savings Bank, the financial institution currently holding the top spot on the BE BANKS list, is fighting for its future. The nation's largest black-owned bank must significantly boost capital reserves by month's end or risk a potential shutdown, takeover or sale of the bank.
William Michael Cunningham, social investing adviser at Creative Investment Research Inc., a Washington D.C. firm specializing in minority banking, estimates that Carver Bancorp Inc.,parent of the Harlem-based bank, must raise nearly $20 million in new capital by April 30, 2011, to meet orders by the Office of Thrift Supervision, the primary regulator of all federal and a number of state-chartered savings banks."
Full article at: http://www.blackenterprise.com/2011/04/12/legendary-carver-savings-bank-fights-to-stay-in-business/