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FDIC issues guidance on multiple re-presentment NSF fees

CFPB Monitor

The FDIC has issued new supervisory guidance (FIL-40-2022) on multiple non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees arising from the re-presentment of the same unpaid transaction. In the guidance, the FDIC addresses potential risks arising from multiple re-presentment NSF fees, risk mitigation practices, and the FDIC’s supervisory approach. .

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Seven states and D.C. file lawsuit challenging FDIC “Madden fix” rule

CFPB Monitor

The plain language of the governing federal statute applies only to interest that an FDIC-insured state bank may charge. Allegedly, the FDIC’s rule represents an expansion of the FDIA’s preemption of state law interest rate caps by extending the preemption to assignees of loans originated by such banks.

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ATMIA Weighs In On Cashless Retail Ban Debate

PYMNTS

As quoted in the National Law Review , the councilman, citing data from the FDIC that black and Hispanic households are more likely than their white counterparts to be underbanked or unbanked, has said that “the cashless marketplace sends an exclusionary message — that the impoverished, the homeless, the underbanked, the undocumented need not apply.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. billion in assets Massachusetts bank developed Zrent so it's landlord customers could more efficiently collect rent from tenants. Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ? Was I, gulp, a futurist?

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

Percentage of Uninsured Deposits: At the time of failure, SVB had approximately 88% of their deposits above the FDIC-insured $250k limit and ran at 95% at the end of last year. Some form of this ratio will likely be applied to the national and regional banks, which means larger community banks will also be judged by this ratio.

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Fizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor

PYMNTS

For those not used to thinking about electricity by the gigawatt, the estimates mean this: Even at the low end, bitcoin mining uses as much power as a nation state. The debate is whether that nation state is small (Lithuania-sized), medium (Morocco-sized) or medium-large (Israel-sized). Use of power is not very evenly distributed.

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Stablecoin Outlook Anything But Stable As Regulation, Legislation Loom

PYMNTS

The legislation would also cover stablecoins that are “denominated in United States dollars or pegged to the United States dollar, or denominated in or pegged to another national or state currency.”. Casting a Wide Net . That’s a pretty wide net, as it would cover any number of stablecoins pegged to single currencies or baskets of currencies.