Brendan Pedersen

A group of eight Attorneys General filed suit against an FDIC final rule related to ‘rent-a-bank’ partnerships, mirroring a similar suit filed against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last month.

The largest bank in the country is reportedly in negotiations to lease space from the U.S. Postal Service. One credit union group called the plan a Wall Street "power grab."

The largest bank in the U.S. is reportedly in negotiations to lease space from the U.S. Postal Service where it would have ATMs and perhaps take deposits.

The largest bank in the U.S. is reportedly in negotiations to lease space from the U.S. Postal Service where it would have ATMs and perhaps take deposits.

The Japanese conglomerate first applied for deposit insurance in July 2019 and again in May 2020.

Jelena McWilliams's term as FDIC chair expires in 2023, and she cannot be removed by an incoming president. But if Joe Biden prevails, he may ask her to stay — and if she does, governing a Democratic-majority board would be a very different proposition.

Appearing to support decentralized systems, the acting comptroller of the currency said on a podcast that "the ultimate public ownership of the payment rails is when you have a network, like the internet, of interconnected institutions and computers."

The regulator announced in June it would use call report data from before the crisis to calculate bank assessment fees in September, a one-time change.

Just as legal limbo has threatened the agency’s long-running effort to create a fintech license, a charter unique to payments companies could face a court challenge, observers say.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors, banking law scholars and consumer advocacy organizations filed amicus briefs siding with the New York State Department of Financial Services in its court battle with the federal regulator.