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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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Model Risk Management: Regulatory Priorities and Best Practices

Abrigo

Meet Model Risk Management Expectations Updates to the FDIC Risk Management Manual should steer institutions toward a model that manages risk and drives growth. FDIC Update. Last April, the FDIC released an Interagency Statement titled Model Risk Management (MRM) for Bank Models and Systems Supporting BSA/AML Compliance.

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Financial institutions face increasingly stringent federal breach reporting requirements

CFPB Monitor

In 2005, the federal prudential regulators—including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)—issued Interagency Guidance on Response Programs for Unauthorized Access to Customer Information and Customer Notice.

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OCC’s FinTech Charter’s Uncharted Legal Seas

PYMNTS

By way of example, FinTechs must cobble together money transmitter licenses from each state in which they operate. And in effect, these tech-savvy upstarts would have been able to act like banks, operating as banks do, to take deposits and make loans. Can’t get the charter without FDIC coverage.

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Lender Kabbage Furloughs Workers, Warns Of SMB Cash Shortfall

PYMNTS

The company is also reportedly “completely” closing down its Bangalore, India operations. government’s $2 trillion stimulus package allows a number of entities — FDIC banks, credit unions and, most notably for this discussion, FinTechs such as Kabbage — to make loans to smaller firms. staff, which has 500 employees.

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Does your bank achieve positive operating leverage?

Jeff For Banks

When a significant portion of your cost structure is fixed, then growing revenues should generate positive operating leverage. Over the course of the past 10 years, the number of FDIC-insured FIs decreased by 23% (see chart). The efficiency ratio measures how much in operating expense it takes to generate a dollar of revenue.

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SAFE Banking Act Gains Cannabis-Friendly Spotlight In Congressional Hearing

PYMNTS

The hearing itself was a small victory for proponents who wish to open up the banking system to legal pot operators. That’s because it marked the first hearing dedicated to a proposed bill in Congress that would offer financial institutions protections against federal regulators when dealing with legal cannabis operations.

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