Joe Adler

On the same day it proposed new capital requirements for all institutions, the FDIC's board of directors approved a 2011 agency budget of $3.96 billion, a 0.7% drop from the previous year.

If Mitchell Glassman visited your town sometime in the past 35 years, it probably wasn't for a good reason. The FDIC veteran has been involved in nearly 1,000 takeovers.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced Wednesday it has scheduled a Dec. 14 board meeting to discuss its target for the Deposit Insurance Fund, two items related to Basel capital standards and the agency's 2011 operating budget.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will hold a pair of telephone seminars with bankers Dec. 14 and 16 about required coverage for noninterest transaction accounts.

The Federal Reserve Board is now leading an examination of put-back risk at the largest banks, asking institutions to include their exposure to repurchases in reports to the central bank about their capital strength.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the crisis stemmed in large part from "disengaged" and shortsighted executives whose activities "sowed the seeds" of their institutions' failures.

Four years after it began charging risk-based premiums, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is set to revamp them again for the largest institutions.

Despite ardent opposition from community banks, the FDIC on Wednesday followed through on a new set of guidelines aimed at curbing abuse of automated overdraft programs.

Despite ardent opposition from community banks, the FDIC on Wednesday followed through on a new set of guidelines aimed at curbing abuse of automated overdraft programs.

A pullback in reserves helped drive another solid profit for banks and thrifts last quarter, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s assessment of the industry's health Tuesday was tempered by mortgage fallout concerns.

Institutions had registered slight growth in reported assets in the first quarter, but the FDIC said that was due to new reporting rules taking effect.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is to present its third-quarter portrayal of the industry's health on Tuesday.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has chosen nine banks for a pilot study on accounts targeting low-income users.

In the absence of global resolution rules, a hard-to-pronounce buzzword has crept into the debate on winding down big banks: subsidiarization.

Two failures in Georgia and another in Arizona late Friday cost the Deposit Insurance Fund about $204 million.

Two failures in Georgia and another in Arizona late Friday cost the Deposit Insurance Fund about $204 million.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has finalized implementation of temporary blanket coverage for non-interest-bearing transaction accounts.

In September, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announced new standards to raise required common equity ratios to 7% by 2019, and have regulators implement the new capital rules by 2013.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. proposed a raft of assessment changes Tuesday that would likely hit big banks hardest. The key reform is a shift from using domestic deposits for calculating premiums to using assets minus capital.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board released a plan Tuesday that would require banks to pay premiums based on their average assets minus tangible equity — a figure roughly equal to their total liabilities — instead of domestic deposits.