Regulators announced a plan to raise deposit insurance coverage, promising greater protection for savers if a bank fails. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An account-sharing service designed to extend the limits of government deposit insurance has doubled its coverage to $10 million for a single customer by expanding the number of participating banks.

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 ...