FDIC Budget, Headcount to Decrease in 2019

Artificial intelligence is “supercharging” the cybersecurity arms race, with cyber-enabled fraud affecting people of all stripes, according to a new Global Cybersecurity Outlook report by the World Economic Forum and professional services firm Accenture.

The FDIC should defer collection of the special assessment imposed on certain banks following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which would give more time for litigation to play out regarding the recovery of losses...

President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to cease activities that facilitate the sale of single-family homes to large institutional investors and to take possible legal action against those firms.

ABA offered several recommendations for how the IRS should implement a new tax benefit for lenders serving rural and agricultural communities, which was included in a tax package passed by Congress last year.

High Plains Banking Group in Flagler, Colorado, has agreed to buy First National Bank of Hugo in Colorado.

ABA said it supports a proposal by the OCC to revise licensing requirements for community banks as part of a broader effort to reduce the overall regulatory burden on the institutions.