American Savings Bank, National Association Reviews: Assets

Reading the American Savings Bank, National Association reviews data on this page

The numbers published here for American Savings Bank, National Association are medians — the midpoint of the distribution rather than the mean.

A median is the midpoint: half of the institution sits above it and half below. Averages get dragged around by a handful of extreme values — one very expensive property, one unusually large loan, one graduate earning far more than their classmates — so a median is the safer number to plan against. Total assets of $9.0 billion and branch count of 35.

Treat these as a baseline for opening a savings, checking or CD account, not a quote. Your own position depends on details no dataset holds: credit history, the exact street, the specific product on offer this week.

What these numbers mean for savers comparing where to keep their money

Context does most of the work here. A number is only high or low next to something else, so we publish American Savings Bank, National Association and how it sits inside Hawaii against a wider benchmark on the same measure. Headquarters of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Gaps of a few percent are noise. Gaps of twenty or thirty percent are structural, and they usually trace back to something concrete: the mix of housing stock, how many households are renting rather than owning, the local employer base, or how far the nearest metro area is.

The useful habit is to pair every figure with the cost it has to cover. Income against rent, loan size against income, price against what the same money buys one county over.

Putting American Savings Bank, National Association next to the alternatives

Comparison is the fastest way to tell a genuinely unusual institution from an ordinary one. We benchmark American Savings Bank, National Association against Hawaii and against the national picture on the same definitions, in the same period, so the difference you see is a real difference rather than an artefact of two datasets disagreeing.

Watch the denominator whenever a comparison surprises you. Whether a rate is calculated on all applications or only completed ones, on every unit or only those on the market, changes the answer more than the local market does.

When the underlying sample is too small for a reliable estimate, we publish nothing for that measure rather than modelling a plausible-looking figure. Fewer numbers you can trust beats more you cannot.

A short checklist before you act

None of this needs a spreadsheet. It needs the discipline of checking the same handful of things every time, whether you are opening a savings, checking or CD account for the first time or the fifth.

• Confirm the rate you were quoted is the standard rate, not a promotional tier that resets after a few months.
• Check the minimum balance and the monthly maintenance fee, which can quietly outweigh the interest earned.
• Check the fee schedule and the fine print, not the headline rate — that is where the real cost usually hides.
• Ask what the number looks like in a bad year, not an average one, and make sure the plan still holds.
• Write down the monthly number you can genuinely cover, not the maximum a lender or admissions office says you qualify for.
• Compare at least three offers. Pricing on the same product varies more between providers than most people expect, and the gap is yours to keep.

Frequently asked questions about American Savings Bank, National Association

Method and limitations

The page is assembled from quarterly regulatory filings, specifically the FDIC Institution Directory and Summary of Deposits (2026-09-16). Nothing here is modelled from a proprietary black box: every figure traces to a published record, and where we derive a ratio we show both inputs so the arithmetic can be checked.

Be aware of what the data cannot do. Small-area estimates are noisier than headline national ones, every source reports on a delay, and no median describes the outliers that people most often remember.

Where a source revises a figure, the revised value replaces the old one rather than sitting alongside it, so the page always reflects the current official position. If you spot a number that looks wrong, it is worth telling us — corrections get made against the source record, not by guesswork.