The FDIC has announced that its Consumer Compliance Examination Manual has been revised to reflect an updated examination schedule for financial institutions. As a result, agency consumer compliance examinations and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) evaluations will occur less frequently for most institutions, according to the FDIC.

Institutions will generally be on an examination cycle of 66-78 months, 54-66 months, or 24-36 months, depending on the asset size of the institution and its Consumer Compliance Rating.… Continue Reading

On August 5, 2025, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued FIL-39-2025 to state that an FDIC-supervised institution can use pre-populated customer information to satisfy the requirements of the Customer Identification Program Rule, implementing part of the USA PATRIOT Act (CIP rule).

The CIP rule requires financial institutions to collect information (name, address, date of birth, and taxpayer identification number) from persons opening accounts and to verify the person’s identity.… Continue Reading

The FDIC is proposing to replace its Supervision Appeals Review Committee (SARC) with an independent, standalone office, known as the Office of Supervisory Appeals (OSA).

Under the proposal, the OSA would be the final level of review of material supervisory determinations, independent of the divisions that make supervisory decisions. FDIC officials believe the changes would facilitate an appeals process that would be consistent over time.… Continue Reading

Saying that its proposed brokered deposits rule would have “significantly disrupted many aspects of the deposit landscape,” the FDIC has withdrawn the proposal. 

The agency said that it no longer intends to issue a brokered deposits rule.

The FDIC proposed the rule last year, when Democrats controlled the agency. The proposal would have subjected brokered deposits to heightened regulation; it also would have expanded the definition of brokered deposits, including by eliminating certain exceptions to the rule.… Continue Reading

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is further postponing the compliance date requirements to display the FDIC official digital sign on an insured depository institution’s (IDI) digital channels, as well as on the screen of an IDI’s automated teller machine (ATM) and like devices. The new mandatory compliance date for these requirements is March 1, 2026.… Continue Reading

A group of 11 financial services associations is calling on the FDIC to withdraw its notice of proposed rulemaking intended to strengthen the prudential protections of the agency’s safety and soundness rule for brokered deposits (12 CFR 337.6).

The agency, the groups wrote in a letter, has failed to justify the need for the rule.… Continue Reading

The FDIC is urging financial institutions it supervises to voluntarily submit self-assessments of their diversity policies and practices to the agency by Oct. 31, 2024.

The agency said that the self-assessment is not an examination requirement and that the results are not shared with examiners. The results also have no impact on an institution’s safety and soundness, its consumer compliance ratings or its Community Reinvestment Act performance evaluation, the agency said.… Continue Reading

The FDIC board on July 30 approved a notice of proposed rulemaking intended to strengthen the prudential protections of the agency’s safety and soundness rule for brokered deposits (12 CFR 337.6).

The proposal would subject brokered deposits to heightened regulation as well as expand the definition of brokered deposits, including by eliminating certain exceptions to the rule.… Continue Reading

The FDIC board on July 30 agreed to request information on deposit data that currently is not reported in the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Call Reports—including data on uninsured deposits.

“Through this RFI, the FDIC is seeking information on characteristics that affect the stability and franchise value of different types of deposits to further evaluate whether and to what extent certain types of deposits may behave differently from each other, particularly during periods of economic or financial stress,” the agency said, in explaining its desire for the data.… Continue Reading