Another caveat: Money on prepaid cards isn't always insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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In a speech this past week, Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Another quasi-government security is a bank bond with a guarantee from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Maybe the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is an arm of the government, after all.
The Dodd-Frank Act gives the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. broad new powers to liquidate banks it thinks are insolvent.
The government would collect fees for that backing, just as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insures bank deposits and regulates banks.
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Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Richard Shelby of Alabama, would put a consumer protection agency inside the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
On Monday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. brokered a deal for the banking operations at Wachovia to head over to Citigroup.
Sheila Bair is the 19th chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Remember: Mutual funds are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Well, interest rate baring checking accounts currently pay out an average interest rate of .08 percent, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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Fremont General is also seeking a buyer for its subprime operations after agreeing with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to get out of the business.
Early last year, she was said to have been a contender to fill a vacancy in the top spot at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Then, they need to prove that they can tap into long-term credit markets without leaning on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to guarantee their debt.
The move spares taxpayers another costly bailout, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. would have had to come in with a big federal rescue for the depositors.
Another subprime lender, Fremont General, said recently it was seeking a buyer for its business after reaching a cease and desist agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The Office of Thrift Supervision considered WaMu well-capitalized on the day it was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and its deposits and assets sold to JPMorgan.
First, because bank failures are expected to continue and increase in number, picking a bank or thrift with deposit insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is the best bet.
Even officials at the Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sided with the banks, saying the proposal threatened to add risk to the system rather than scale it back.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says banks as a whole had the highest quarterly earnings total since the third quarter of 2007, when the subprime mortgage issues started to explode.
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Bernanke's speech, at a conference on mortgage lending sponsored by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), comes after global stock markets swooned over new fears that the credit crisis will deepen.
As the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. recently confirmed, banks in the United States have been pulling back on lending for the last year, even before the new capital standards were set.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will lend investors about 85% of the money needed to buy toxic securities from banks that want to remove them from their balance sheets, the paper reported.
In 2002 billionaire banker Andy Beal had his Beal Bank sue the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a lawsuit that accused the FDIC of originating faulty subprime mortgages to unqualified borrowers.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is getting more aggressive in its handling of troubled banks, of which there are officially 117 on its watch list as of the end of the second quarter.
Once seized, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) has the power to decide which creditors get paid, and which do not, regardless of their rights in a normal bankruptcy proceeding.
The number of U.S. branches doubled over the past three decades, and the industry has reduced branches just three times in the 77 years since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. started keeping track.
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