Fed Bars Former Regions Bank Employee Over Check Fraud 
Fed and Bank Regulators Propose New Rules on Bank Vendor Risk 
Bank Regulators Expand Who Gets Less Frequent Exams 
Fed Lifts Enforcement Orders on United Texas Bank, Quontic Bank Units 
What FDIC Insurance Actually Covers, and What It Does Not 
Fed Bars Former Regions Bank Employee Over Check Fraud
The Federal Reserve Board announced on August 13, 2026, that it had executed a consent prohibition against Elazia Jones, a...
Fed and Bank Regulators Propose New Rules on Bank Vendor Risk
Four federal banking regulators want to rewrite the rulebook on how banks and credit unions manage their outside vendors, the...
Bank Regulators Expand Who Gets Less Frequent Exams
Banks with up to $6 billion in assets can now qualify for exams once every 18 months instead of every...
Fed Lifts Enforcement Orders on United Texas Bank, Quontic Bank Units
The Federal Reserve Board announced on September 4, 2026, that it has terminated enforcement actions against three institutions: United Texas...
What FDIC Insurance Actually Covers, and What It Does Not
The standard federal deposit insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category. Almost everyone...
Fed Bars Former Heritage State Bank Lending Officer From Banking
The Federal Reserve Board announced on July 16, 2026, that it had executed a prohibition order against James Burns, the...
FTC Fines Payment Processor $12 Million Over Sham Merchant Scams
The Federal Trade Commission announced on September 8, 2026, that payment processor Humboldt Merchant Services will pay $12 million and...
Why Minimum Payments Are Designed to Keep You in Debt
Your credit card statement contains a box that most people never read, and it is the most useful thing on...
Bank Regulators Tighten Rules on Handling Sensitive Exam Data
The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a joint...
Fed Bars Two Former Bank Employees Over Misused Customer Funds
The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday, July 30, 2026, issued consent prohibition orders against two former bank employees, permanently barring...