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Private Sector Ramps Up

We recently relocated our corporate headquarters to a new facility here in Oklahoma City, after having spent almost 18 years at the same office property.…

By Bliss A. Morris - President and CEO of First Financial Network and a member of the DAI Editorial Advisory Board. | Updated on December 09, 2011

We recently relocated our corporate headquarters to a new facility here in Oklahoma City, after having spent almost 18 years at the same office property. As part of that process, I was cleaning out my desk and stumbled across an interesting quotation from Lamar Kelly, who was responsible for leading and supervising the Asset Management and Sales division of the Resolution Trust Corp., including the management of a 4,500-person staff that managed and disposed of more than $450 billion in assets, back in the early to mid-1990s. Speaking to loan sales at the time, he said he was seeing: “What we see is the elimination of the large overhead of real estate and real estate-related loans that were in those institutions. Those assets are back in the hands of the private sector where they belong.”

It’s surprising how relevant this statement is today, some 20-odd years later. We are now in the midst of yet another clearing process, with the private sector leading the charge. And while we’ve learned certain lessons since the last downturn, there are still some speed bumps ahead. As it stands, the FDIC probably still retains anywhere between $35 billion and $40 billion in assets, which will ultimately need to be sold off. But, clearly, this isn’t going to happen overnight.

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