If that weren't true, thrift institutions would have 100 percent of the business and they don't.
Four of the thrift institutions have been closed by Federal regulators.
The group was involved in the conversion of thrift institutions from stock to mutual form.
A second quiet area is small banks and thrift institutions.
Over time, he said, banks and thrift institutions will fail in alarming numbers.
The trust agency would not break down how much went to each thrift institution.
Some banks and thrift institutions said that current interest rates are now where they should be.
The founders wanted to create a thrift institution for the island's poor to encourage savings.
And 515 other thrift institutions with assets of $255 billion, he estimates, should also be counted among the walking dead.
"Banks and thrift institutions, in particular, are extremely technology intensive."