In Brief: Partial Repayment For Nationar Creditors

The state Banking Department has issued $6.16 million to capital debtholders of Nationar, a former Manhattan check-cashing company that failed and was seized by state officials in February 1995.

In late April the department sent checks that equaled about 25 cents on the dollar to 52 institutions. That's about 25% of their total outstanding loans to Nationar.

Claims by the capital debtholders, those who periodically lent money to Nationar, were lower in priority than all other claims except those of shareholders. Nationar was owned by the state's savings banks, which were also customers.

The department has already issued two payments to Nationar's approved creditors, repaying all their claims. The first, last June, satisfied approved priority claims in full and nonpriority claims in part. The second, in December, paid the rest of the nonpriority claims.

Acting Superintendent of Banking Elizabeth McCaul said in a press release that the department will likely issue an additional payment of 15 to 20 cents on the dollar later this year.

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