Right now, accounts are insured up to $250,000, so most Americans don't have to worry about the soundness of the bank where they store their ...

As the umbrella body for credit unions gives assurances that deposit insurance for these cooperatives will not burden or exclude them, Prime Minister Mia ...

Efforts to expand the maximum deposit insurance to $10 million are a wrong-headed effort that will hurt Main Street.

There are plenty of ways that lawmakers could help community bankers. Raising federal deposit insurance limits by a factor of ...

Expanding deposit insurance to subsidize smaller midsized banks doesn’t reduce risk: It transfers it to taxpayers.

Apollo, KKR and others turbo-charged their credit divisions by selling annuities. It drove a surge in sales of the retirement ...

Deposit accounts are one of the most common tools used in day-to-day personal banking. There are two government agencies responsible for protecting the money in these accounts.

Politicians in Washington have the shortest memories. Maybe that’s why they so seldom learn from their sometimes catastrophic mistakes. It was less than 20 years ago that the U.S. economy was ...

A recent study from the Cato Institute found that fewer than 1% of deposit accounts exceed $250,000, the level at which ...

More than 4.7 million homeowners depend on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for financial protection against ...