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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. We believe any change to the FDIC insurance coverage should aim to maintain and advance our credit markets. economy needs. The plan will likely involve charging the biggest U.S.

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Lessons Learned From the Fourth United States Bank Failure of 2023

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A rather small bank, as of the end of its first quarter, the bank reported $139 million in total assets and $130 million in total deposits in its FDIC Call Report. He was promoted to President and CEO in 2008. Heartland Tri-State began operations in 1985 under the name First National Bank of Elkhart.

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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). That fact makes the bank’s deposits less sticky and subject to outflow at any sign of insolvency.

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FDIC Issues Guidance on Service Technology Service Provider Contracts

CFPB Monitor

On April 2, 2019, the FDIC issued Financial Institution Letter FIL-19-2019 (the “Letter”) to remind financial institutions about certain contractual provisions and other requirements pertaining to technology service provider contracts.

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The Death of the Community Bank

Jeff For Banks

In June of 2008 I gave a speech titled "The Death of the Community Bank" and in that speech I made predictions. When I made that speech in 2008, there were approximately 8,500 FDIC-insured financial institutions and today that is around 5,000, a 40% decline. Eighteen percent of that group opened an account at a digital bank.

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Community Bank Acquires SMB Digital Bank Seed

PYMNTS

Cross River Bank has partnered with a range of FinTech startups since its 2008 launch, including collaborations with Stripe , Coinbase and Affirm , reports said. Community financial institution (FI) Cross River Bank is acquiring Seed , a small business (SMB) digital banking company, reports in Reuters said on Monday (June 24). reports said.

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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

To you, manage your interest rate risk. According to the FDIC, the causes of the 2008-09 financial crisis lay partly in the housing boom and bust of the mid-2000s; partly in the degree to which the U.S. After losses of $24 and $23 million, respectively in 2008 and 09, the regulators in 2010 said enough is enough.

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