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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Board of Directors Chairman Martin Gruenberg, testifies during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing on oversight of prudential regulators, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The most powerful Democrat in Congress on banking and financial issues called for President Joe Biden to replace the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Monday, May 20, 2024, saying the agency is broken and there must be “fundamental changes at the FDIC.” (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

FDIC chairman to step down following report on agency’s ‘toxic culture,’ White House says

By Ken Sweet - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 17, 2023, in Washington. Biden on Friday called on Congress to allow regulators to impose tougher penalties on the executives of failed banks, including clawing back compensation and making it easier to bar them from working in the industry. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden calls for tougher penalties for execs of failed banks

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Sen. Marco Rubio questioned JPMorgan Chase and Co. CEO Jamie Dimon (pictured) Tuesday about “politically-motivated de-banking” after the country's largest banking company terminated the account of a conservative nonprofit. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Rubio calls out Chase CEO Jamie Dimon over concerns the financial giant is targeting conservatives

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Discrimination and economy terrorist illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Domestic financial terrorist groups threaten America’s economic stability

By Jared Whitley

Eastern Kentucky bank fails,

Associated Press

FILE- In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the rate decision of the Federal Reserve. In the low-interest rate environment that followed the recession, banks routinely paid little to nothing on many personal accounts. As the Federal Reserve began to raise its rates in 2015, traditional banks were slow to do the same for customers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Savers: Shop around, and you may finally make some money

By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL - Associated Press

US banks made more than $60 billion in profits last quarter

By KEN SWEET - Associated Press

Chicago’s Seaway Bank taken over by State Bank of Texas

Associated Press

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's speech in Philadelphia is broadcast on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, June 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Cybersecurity rules in the works for big banks; regulators say measures would reduce impact of hacks

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

White supremacists once again can easily access Stormfront.org, the internet's oldest-operating hate site, after its sudden disappearance last month. (Associated Press/File)

FDIC let down its cyber defenses despite being hacked by Chinese: House panel

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Illustration on FDIC targeting of the payday loan industry by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DENNIS SHAUL: Bank regulators tried to drive payday lenders out of business

By Dennis Shaul

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray

NEWT GINGRICH: The divine right of bureaucrats

By Newt Gingrich

Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio Democrat. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: ‘Operation Choke Point’: A noose for business

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Greeley bank failure victims move on

By SHARON DUNN - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein and husband Richard Blum (Katie Falkenberg/The Washington Times)

Firm chaired by Sen. Feinstein’s husband cashes in on another financial crisis

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

Wells Fargo reported record net income of $18.9 billion in 2012, which was up 19 percent from 2011. During the fourth quarter, the bank had record net income of $5.1 billion. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. attributes banking’s successful year to higher income and lower provisions for loan losses. (Associated Press)

Banks see 2nd-most profitable year

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

This Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, photo shows a Citibank in Philadelphia. U.S. banks are closing the year with the strongest profits since 2006 and fewer failures than at any time since the financial crisis struck in 2008. They're helping support an economy slowed by high unemployment, flat pay, sluggish manufacturing and anxious consumers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Fewer U.S. banks failing as industry strengthens

By Marcy Gordon - Associated Press

**FILE** Bank of America's corporate headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. (Associated Press)

Banks return to an industry Americans can bank on

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Bull by the Horns’

By Joseph Lawler - Special to The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama talks June 8, 2012, about the economy at the White House. (Associated Press)

Obama donor got $3.5M FDIC discount in failed-bank settlement

By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times