State regulators today closed Republic First Bank, doing business under the Republic Bank brand, in Philadelphia, and appointed the FDIC as receiver. Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based Fulton Bank agreed to assume substantially all of the failed bank’s $4 billion in deposits and to purchase substantially all of its $6 billion in assets. The FDIC estimated that the failure—the first of 2024—will cost the Deposit Insurance Fund $667 million.
OCC’s Gould skeptical of concerns about bank charters for crypto firms
Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould dismissed concerns raised by bank advocates and others about allowing digital asset firms to establish national trust banks, saying that limiting such activity would “undermine the dynamic and evolving nature of the...











