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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). was formed in 2009 as a payment services provider to enable businesses to accept card payments. Square, Inc.

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Impact of Covid-19 Felt in the Shared National Credit Reviews Released by Bank Regulators

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.” SNC (pronounced like the candy bar but without the “ers”) stands for the Shared National Credit Program, which, since 1977, has assessed risk in the largest and most complex credits shared by multiple regulated financial institutions. Loan reviews are completed in the first and third calendar quarters each year.

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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. The regulators are considering three options: raising the limit above $250k, raising the cap for only certain accounts (such as banks’ business accounts), or eliminating the cap entirely.

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There Are Fewer Unbanked Americans, According To The FDIC

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With increasingly few exceptions, the ranks of the unbanked seem to be on the decline, according to new data released by the FDIC. According to FDIC data, unbanked American consumers peaked toward the end of the Great Recession in 2011 at 8.2 The percentage of Americans going without banking services fell to 7 percent in 2015 from 7.7

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Three Small US Banks Collapse Over Past Month

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recorded its fourth bank failure this year — the first collapse of financial institutions since 2017, according to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp ( FDIC ). Assets and deposits were assumed by Industrial Bank, a press release from the FDIC indicated. “On Approximately $500,000 in deposits exceeded FDIC insurance limits.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

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Ashbaugh’s presentation begins with a quick summary of why regulators care about HVCRE. Ashbaugh goes on to demonstrate that the default rates for these loans did not peak until about 2009, and the ALLL did not increase until 2010. That 13% represented 80% of the losses to the FDIC insurance fund. How did we get here?

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Are the regulators getting you down?

Jeff For Banks

The FDIC has nearly quadrupled its enforcement actions (“EA”) over the past three years. The productive view about the similarity of EAs is why haven’t we been doing some of the things required by regulators in the first place? Banking is a highly regulated industry, and has been since the Great Depression.