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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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AI Development Can’t Be Paused—But It Can Be Regulated

FICO

Home Blog Feed test AI Development Can’t Be Paused—But It Can Be Regulated Since Generative AI is here to stay, ChatGPT’s base grew by 9,900% in 60 days, with 1.8 But it is possible to mitigate further wrongs by regulating artificial intelligence, and I believe effective proposed regulation should start from organizations using AI.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Second, this can be accomplished only if the industry does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned.

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OCC issues proposed “true lender” rule

CFPB Monitor

Previously, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks indicated that the OCC expected to partner with the FDIC in developing the OCC’s “true lender” rule. Presumably, we will soon see a proposed “true lender” rule from the FDIC. 2002 WL 1205060 (N.D. In Hudson v. Ace Cash Express, Inc.,

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

Perficient

.” 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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In Pursuit of Return on Equity

Jeff For Banks

During the period 2002-07, when loan growth outpaced the ability to fund it, FIs took on more FHLB borrowings and high cost deposits. What made so many in this group take the perp walk to the FDIC? The logic: blow up the balance sheet, eek out incremental profits, and reduce the E. As mostly always the case, it was bad loans.

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Plaintiffs in lawsuit challenging OCC Madden-fix rule move for summary judgment

CFPB Monitor

The OCC failed to consider the rule’s facilitation of rent-a-bank schemes and that the rule creates a regulatory vacuum by placing non-bank loan buyers outside any meaningful regulation. White who was appointed to the federal bench in 2002 by President George W. President-Biden is expected to appoint a new Comptroller of the Currency.

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