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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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A Whale of a Tale: Enloe State Bank

Jeff For Banks

ESB's President was a dominant official with significant control over bank operations and limited oversight by the Board of Directors (Board). She hid them from the Board and regulators with assistance from unnamed co-conspirators." She hid them from the Board and regulators with assistance from unnamed co-conspirators."

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Whatever Happened To…Kabbage

PYMNTS

The year was 2009, and it was rough for some, but a fertile ground for others. “I I think it was a real advantage to us to start during an economic downturn,” says Kathryn Petralia, a co-founder and Head of Operations at Kabbage. “It Petralia remembers back to 2009 when the team was looking for a bank partnership.

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Are the regulators getting you down?

Jeff For Banks

The FDIC has nearly quadrupled its enforcement actions (“EA”) over the past three years. The productive view about the similarity of EAs is why haven’t we been doing some of the things required by regulators in the first place? Banking is a highly regulated industry, and has been since the Great Depression.

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CFPB turns attention to college banking agreements in annual report on college credit card agreements

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB’s key findings are: Based on a comparison of data from 2009 with year-end 2021 data, the number of college credit card agreements, overall payments from issuers to IHEs, and open accounts continue to decrease. ED also stated that it “will monitor compliance and take corrective action to enforce these regulations when necessary.”.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. The DOJ Finding. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

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