The federal deposit insurance system has withstood plenty of banking turmoil in its roughly 90-year existence — yet after the extraordinary events of the past two weeks, some experts say the system is ...

Regulators announced a plan to raise deposit insurance coverage, promising greater protection for savers if a bank fails. The ...

Following three bank failures in the past seven weeks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. released on Monday an overview of the deposit insurance system and suggested three options for reform to ...

Regulators seized another big regional bank and sold most of its assets to J-P Morgan Chase. The failure is expected to cost the federal deposit insurance fund about $13 billion. In the banking panic ...

Ranking Member Waters Delivers Opening Statement at Deposit Insurance Roundtable: "...The Current Deposit Insurance System Should Be Strengthened So Regulators Don't Have to Rely on Emergency ...

Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and ranking member Tim Scott, R-S.C., downplayed the urgency for legislation to revise deposit insurance during a hearing Thursday. WASHINGTON — ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. businesses might be able to secure bank deposit insurance for accounts holding more than $250,000 if Congress agrees with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s new proposal to ...

NEW YORK — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is recommending the U.S. rethink its decades-old policy of insuring up to $250,000 in bank deposits and replace it with an overhaul that would allow ...

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The banking crisis of 1933 is arguably the worst US financial crisis since the Federal Reserve’s founding. Crisis management required extraordinary measures, including blanket deposit guarantees, ...