Heritage Bank of Florida Closed By Regulators

ANOTHER BANK CLOSED BY FDIC

Heritage Bank of Florida, Lutz, Florida, was closed
today by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and the FDIC was appointed
as receiver. The failed bank was taken over by Centennial Bank, Conway,
Arkansas, under a purchase and assumption agreement with the FDIC.

Heritage Bank of Florida, which was established on August 3, 1999, had three
branches and almost a quarter of a billion dollars in deposits. To protect
depositors, Centennial Bank will assume all of the deposits of failed Heritage
Bank of Florida.. All three branches of Heritage Bank will reopen on Monday as
branches of Centennial Bank. Over the weekend, depositors of Heritage Bank of
Florida will have full access to their money through the use of checks, ATMs and
debit cards.

Heritage Bank of Florida was a Florida chartered, commercial bank. As an
independent community bank, Heritage Bank primarily served the Florida counties
of central Pasco and north and central Hillsborough Counties. At September 30,
2012, Heritage Bank of Florida had total deposits of $222.3 million and total
assets of $225.5 million.

Centennial Bank agreed to purchase $193.7 million of Heritage Bank of
Florida’s assets, leaving the FDIC stuck with the remaining balance of $31.8
million. As of June 30, 2012, the FDIC had a total of $21.8 billion in failed
bank assets that have still not been disposed of.

Including Heritage Bank, Centennial Bank has now acquired a total of 7 failed
banks since March of 2010. Home BancShares, Inc. of Conway, Arkansas, operates
as the holding company for Centennial Bank. Founded in 1998, Home BancShares has
grown rapidly through acquisitions and now has over $3.6 billion in assets. Home
BancShares has been profitable over the past three years and the company’s share
value has more than doubled from the lows of early 2009.

The estimated cost to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) for the failure
of Heritage Bank is $65.5 million. The total cost to the FDIC DIF for the 48
banking failures during 2012 now totals over $2.3 billion. Heritage Bank of
Florida becomes the nation’s 48th banking failure and the 8th in Florida. Since
the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, a total of 462 banking
institutions insured by the FDIC have failed.