If the beaten-down stock market has got you seeking a haven for your cash, there's some good news. The financial-system bailout legislation enacted last month boosted limits on federal insurance for ...

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 ...

The Independent Community Bankers of America, the trade association that markets itself as The Nation's Voice for Community Banks, is officially supporting the newest legislation to expand federal ...

Most certificates of deposit (CDs) are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) if they’re issued by a member bank. That means your money is protected up to $250,000 per depositor, ...

Learn how these federal agencies safeguard your deposits at credit unions and banks, offering protection up to $250,000 per ...

Officials from both parties are pushing to raise the FDIC insurance limit from $250,000 to $10 million. But not only millionaires would benefit. Money; Getty Images In a rare moment of bipartisan ...

New legislation in Congress vows to protect Main Street, but the specifics suggest something else entirely. The proposal, called the Main Street Depositor Protection Act, would raise the Federal ...

Each government failure becomes an excuse to do more of what failed. It is sad but not surprising to see this expensive and destructive cycle of failure repeat itself with banking regulation.

Each government failure becomes an excuse to do more of what failed. It is sad but not surprising to see this expensive and destructive cycle of failure repeat itself with banking regulation.