If you keep more than $250,000 at any one bank, you might worry about whether your money is fully protected by government insurance. Maybe you sold a house or a business, adjusted your portfolio for ...

Worried about whether your cash is safe at your bank? You’re not alone. When Gallup surveyed Americans about their feelings regarding bank safety after the 2023 failures of Silicon Valley Bank and ...

Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., right, in 2024. WASHINGTON — The House Financial Services Committee has a new package of bills aimed at reforming deposit insurance, including a companion bill to a revised ...

House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said Tuesday that it was "unlikely" that deposit insurance reform passes in the current Congress and that talks on deposit insurance ...

Congress created explicit federal deposit insurance during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration to buttress depositor confidence in the banking system. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ...

Senators Bill Hagerty and Angela Alsobrooks have introduced legislation that would raise the FDIC deposit insurance limit on noninterest-bearing transactions account balances from $250,000 to $10 ...

Proposals are now circulating in Washington to increase deposit insurance limits radically, including the bill from Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) to boost coverage from ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kate Bachelder Odell, Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Following the collapse ...

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 ...