The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has issued its final rules implementing stress test provisions required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for banks with at least $10 billion in assets. Banks with more than $50 billion ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. bank earnings rose 21 percent in the April-June quarter and lending to consumers increased, adding to evidence that the industry is strengthening four years after the financial crisis. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday that the ...

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WASHINGTON — A surge in earnings by the biggest U.S. banks at the end of last year made 2011 the most profitable time for the industry in five years. More earnings and fewer troubled banks suggest the industry has healed ...

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WASHINGTON — Bank earnings rose over the summer to their highest level in more than four years, while the number of troubled banks fell for the second straight quarter, federal regulators reported Tuesday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the ...

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WASHINGTON — Bank earnings rose over the summer to their highest level in more than four years, while the number of troubled banks fell for the second straight quarter, federal regulators reported Tuesday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the ...

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WASHINGTON — Banks would be barred from trading for their own profit instead of their clients under a rule being proposed by federal regulators. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. backed the rule on a 3-0 vote. The ban on so-called proprietary trading was required under last year’s financial overhaul law.

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WASHINGTON — The largest U.S. banks will be required to show regulators how they would break up and sell off their assets if they are in danger of failing. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. voted 3-0 to approve the rules ...

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A bill that extends full FDIC protection of Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts for two more years has been signed by President Barack Obama. The law closes an inadvertent loophole created earlier this year ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal regulators have authorized legal action against more than 50 executives and directors of collapsed U.S. banks as they seek to recover about $1 billion in losses.

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U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Insurance Fidelity Bonds FDIC v. Great American Insurance Co. 09-1052-cv Appealed from the District of Connecticut Background: The appeal is from an order granting summary judgment to the defendant in an action for breach ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Sheila Bair is denying that the FDIC could have done more to prevent the largest bank failure in U.S. history.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As banks gambled on the risky mortgages that helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the U.S. government handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to regulators ...

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