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What happened to Rainier Pacific Bank?
Rainier Pacific Bank in Tacoma, WA (earlier called Educational Employees Credit Union and 2 other names) failed, and Umpqua Bank of Roseburg, OR took it over on Feb 26, 2010. That bank is now called Columbia Bank (Roseburg, OR).
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.
- 1933Educational Employees Credit Union opens in Tacoma, WA
- Oct 16, 1995renamed Rainier Pacific, a Community Credit Union
- Jan 1, 2001renamed Rainier Pacific Savings Bank
- Jun 6, 2001renamed Rainier Pacific Bank
- Feb 26, 2010FAILEDRainier Pacific Bank failed, and Umpqua Bank of Roseburg, OR took it over.FDIC certificate 38129 ends; its business continues under certificate 17266.
- TodayOPEN
Columbia BankMain office Roseburg, OR · FDIC certificate 17266 · 360 offices in 8 states on June 30, 2026Every Columbia Bank office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.columbiabank.com/
If you still have something from Rainier Pacific Bank
A lien that was never released
Rainier Pacific Bank failed on Feb 26, 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 Columbia Bank, 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, Umpqua Bank). Start with Columbia Bank, and ask them to search under the name Rainier Pacific 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 Columbia Bank. 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
15 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 1 is still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 1900 S 320th StFederal Way, WA | OpenColumbia Bank |
| 3123-56th Street, N. W.Gig Harbor, WA | No longer reported |
| 6015 100th Street SwLakewood, WA | No longer reported |
| 109-35th Avenue, SePuyallup, WA | No longer reported |
| 17510 Meridian EastPuyallup, WA | No longer reported |
| 1211 South Pearl StreetTacoma, WA | No longer reported |
| 1498 Pacific AvenueTacoma, WA | No longer reported |
| 2525 North Proctor StreetTacoma, WA | No longer reported |
| 16120 Pacific AveSpanaway, WA | No longer reported |
| 4704 Bridgeport Way, WUniversity Place, WA | No longer reported |
| 4949 Borgen Blvd. #101Gig Harbor, WA | No longer reported |
| 11821 Canyon Road EastPuyallup, WA | No longer reported |
| 33650 21st Avenue, SwFederal Way, WA | No longer reported |
| 35007 Enchanted Pkwy SFederal Way, WA | No longer reported |
| 401 South Fawcett AvenueTacoma, WA | 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 38129 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.