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What happened to Fremont Investment & Loan?
Fremont Investment & Loan in Brea, CA closed voluntarily on Jul 25, 2008. It did not fail.
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the last entry on record. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1937Fremont Investment & Loan opens in Brea, CA
- Jul 25, 2008CLOSEDFremont Investment & Loan closed voluntarily. It did not fail.FDIC certificate 25653 ends.
- NO SUCCESSOR BANK
The FDIC record ends here. No operating bank carries this charter today.
If you still have something from Fremont Investment & Loan
A lien that was never released
Fremont Investment & Loan closed voluntarily, and the FDIC says it cannot process lien releases for banks that closed voluntarily and liquidated or closed without government assistance. The FDIC says it may be able to help only where the lender was a failed bank placed in FDIC receivership.
Our suggestion, not the FDIC's: a title company or real-estate attorney in the county where the lien is recorded will know how that state clears a lien from a lender that no longer exists.
An old account, passbook or CD
With no successor bank to ask, go to the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records. The OCC gives the same advice for old records from a bank that no longer exists.
Accounts nobody touches are eventually turned over to a state. The OCC puts the usual wait at three to five years with no activity, set by each state's law. Search the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records, and any other state they lived in. It is free to search and to claim through a state's own site, and MissingMoney.com, an official site of the state administrators' association, searches most states at once.
A safe deposit box
Contents of boxes left behind are handled under state unclaimed-property law. Start with the unclaimed-property program of California, where the box was.
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.
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
30 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 5 are still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 5126 N Palm AvenueFresno, CA | OpenBanc of California |
| 11120 Stockdale Hwy, Ste 101Bakersfield, CA | OpenBanc of California |
| 101 E Main StVisalia, CA | OpenBanc of California |
| 512 N Irwin StHanford, CA | OpenBanc of California |
| 13962 Seal Beach BlvdSeal Beach, CA | OpenSunflower Bank, National Association |
| 128 East State StreetRedlands, CA | No longer reported |
| 10240 Reseda BoulevardNorthridge, CA | No longer reported |
| 7 N Fifth AvenueArcadia, CA | No longer reported |
| 9301 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 100Beverly Hills, CA | No longer reported |
| 12424 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100Los Angeles, CA | No longer reported |
| 10933 Ventura BoulevardStudio City, CA | No longer reported |
| 19522 Ventura BoulevardTarzana, CA | No longer reported |
| 3440 W Carson StreetTorrance, CA | No longer reported |
| 15111 Whittier Boulevard, Suite 101Whittier, CA | No longer reported |
| 300 North Lake Avenue, Suite 150Pasadena, CA | No longer reported |
| 5794 Lindero Canyon Road, Suite CWestlake Village, CA | No longer reported |
| 24181 Ronda Del RossmoorLaguna Hills, CA | No longer reported |
| 18231 Irvine Boulevard, Suite 110Tustin, CA | No longer reported |
| 975 E Birch Street,suite ABrea, CA | No longer reported |
| 7146 Edinger AvenueHuntington Beach, CA | No longer reported |
| 2121 E. Coast Hwy Suite 180Newport Beach, CA | No longer reported |
| 2727 East Imperial HighwayBrea, CA | No longer reported |
| 1345 State StreetSanta Barbara, CA | No longer reported |
| 24380 Moulton ParkwayLaguna Woods, CA | No longer reported |
| 500 North Brand Boulevard, Suite 100Glendale, CA | No longer reported |
| 3400 Tully RoadModesto, CA | No longer reported |
| 2091 West Florida AvenueHemet, CA | No longer reported |
| 750 Cass StreetMonterey, CA | No longer reported |
| 422 South Main StreetSalinas, CA | No longer reported |
| 4400 Stevens Creek BoulevardSan Jose, CA | No longer reported |
Banks folded into Fremont Investment & Loan
1 bank merged directly into this charter; counting the banks those had absorbed earlier, 2 charters end up inside it.
| Bank | Ended |
|---|---|
| Liberty Thrift and LoanWhittier, CA | Jun 1, 1991 |
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 25653 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.