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Revisions in 2020 to the way regulators classify "hot" deposits struck some observers as risky, at least in theory. Silvergate seems to have made that risk less theoretical.

Coinbase, Paxos, MetaBank and PayPal all claim the primary purpose exception, which allows companies to place deposits at banks without limits applied to brokered deposits.

Pointing to an FDIC policy change in 2020, regulatory experts say it's time for the agency to revisit what constitutes a brokered deposit.

Senate Democrats and banks want to subject industrial loan companies to Fed supervision, but even without legislation observers say the FDIC is skeptical of new applications.

The embattled crypto-service bank got a lifeline of liquidity in the fourth quarter of 2022 from the Federal Home Loan Bank System, raising new questions about both the Home Loan banks' purpose and crypto contagion.

The confirmation of Martin Gruenberg to chair the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is the final chapter of the political fracas surrounding former chair Jelena McWilliams' departure. But it also means he could be outvoted if a Republican takes the presidency in 2024.

In a joint review published Friday, the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. found problems with two foreign banks' bankruptcy resolution plans.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has proposed a rule to modernize representations of insured deposits and finalized guidelines for appeals of material supervisory determinations.

The agency is needlessly raising banks' costs at a time of severe economic uncertainty.

Federal law requires one Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board member to have state bank supervisory experience, but if no one takes that requirement seriously it should be scrapped.

FTX's previously unknown ties to the banking system have raised questions about crypto's reach in traditional finance.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. acting Chairman Martin Gruenberg suggested that could decrease in future quarters as market pressures push up the interest that banks need to pay for consumer deposits.

Acting Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg was described even by Republicans as well qualified and experienced, but took heat for a year-old drama that led to the departure of the agency's former chairman.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. lacks a board member with state banking regulatory experience as required by law, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors says. None of President Biden's picks — including acting Chair Martin Gruenberg — meets that criterion.

Citi was the only bank cited in the agencies' biennial review of living wills for the eight largest U.S. banks.

The FDIC recently proposed that an ombudsman be added to the Supervision Appeals Review Committee as a nonvoting member.

Martin Gruenberg has been acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. since February and is the longest-serving member of the FDIC board.

The board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is required by law to have a member with state bank supervisory experience. That perspective has been absent for too long.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s solution to add the ombudsman to an appeals committee as a nonvoting member wouldn't be enough to ensure the independence of the appeals process, banks said.

The rate of unbanked consumers declined to its lowest point since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. began its biennial survey in 2009.