FDIC insurance protects up to $250,000 per depositor, per bank, per ownership category, leaving balances above that limit uninsured if a bank fails. While bank failures are rare, they can spike during ...

Some deposit accounts offer FDIC protection beyond the standard $250,000 limit. CNBC Select explains what you need to know.

FDIC insurance covers up to $250,000 per depositor, per bank, per ownership category — meaning a single person can protect far more than $250,000 by using different account types at the same ...

"FDIC Board approves proposed rulemaking for payment stablecoin issuers under GENIUS Act: reserve assets, redemption, custody ...

On April 9, 2026, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “FDIC Proposal”) to implement ...

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 ...

On March 11, FDIC Chairman Travis Hill spoke at a banking industry summit, where he outlined a forthcoming proposal that would clarify that payment stablecoins subject to the GENIUS Act (covered by ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Board of Directors Tuesday issued a proposed rule for public comment that would revise how banks must display FDIC signage on digital interfaces and ATMs where ...

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 ...

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 U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. formally proposed its approach to stablecoin issuers as one of the federal financial regulators required to write and oversee rules under last year's Guiding ...