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Other Financial Regulators
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's mission is to maintain the stability of and public confidence in the nation's financial system. To achieve this goal, the FDIC has insured deposits and promoted safe and sound banking practices since 1933.

  • Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
    The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council is a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and to make recommendations to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions.

  • Federal Reserve System
    The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, was founded by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.  The System consists of a seven member Board of Governors with headquarters in Washington, D.C. and twelve Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the United States.

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  • Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee
    The Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee (FBIIC), chaired by the Treasury Department, is chartered under the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, and is charged with improving coordination and communication among financial regulators, enhancing the resiliency of the financial sector, and promoting the public/private partnership.

  • Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network supports law enforcement investigative efforts and fosters interagency and global cooperation against domestic and international financial crimes; and provides U.S. policy makers with strategic analyses of domestic and worldwide money-laundering developments, trends and patterns.

  • Federal Housing Finance Board
    The Finance Board is the federal regulator of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

  • National Credit Union Administration
    The National Credit Union Administration is an independent federal agency that supervises and insures federal credit unions and insures state-chartered credit unions.

  • Office of Thrift Supervision
    The OTS is the primary regulator of all federal and many state-chartered thrift institutions, which include savings banks and savings and loan associations.

  • State Banks
    State banks are regulated by individual states. Individuals seeking information regarding the regulation and supervision should refer to the specific states financial regulatory agency.

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Top Stories

10/06/2005
Comptroller Dugan Initiates Process to Improve Risk-Based Capital Rules
News Release 2005-101 | Statement to FDIC (PDF)

09/26/2005
News Release 2005-95, Comptroller Dugan Tells Bankers that Long Fight to Shed Outdated Laws Promoted Innovation and Broad Range of New Consumer Products and Services

08/02/2005
News Release 2005-75, OCC Releases Consumer Advisory: "Writing a Check: Understanding Your Rights"

06/30/2005
FFIEC Issues the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual
Release 2005-64
| Transmittal letter (PDF) | Q&A (PDF) | Fact sheet (PDF) | Introduction/Overview (PDF) | Core/Expanded Examination Procedures (PDF) | Appendixes (PDF)

06/16/2005
OCC Files Suit to Prevent New York Attorney General From Disrupting Fair Lending Examination and Supervision of National Banks
Release 2005-59
| Motion for Preliminary Injunction (PDF) | Complaint (PDF) | Memorandum in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction (PDF)

06/06/2005
OCC Publishes Ombudsman Report and Customer Assistance Brochure
Release 2005-56
| Ombudsman Report (PDF) | Customer Assistance Brochure (PDF)

05/27/2005
News Release 2005-53, Acting Comptroller Williams Tells Community Bankers OCC Working Hard to Make Regulation More Efficient and Less Burdensome

05/17/2005
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Julie L. Williams Tells Senate Banking Committee Credit Card Disclosures Can be Improved, Urges New Approach to Consumer Disclosures for Financial Products and Services
Release 2005-49 | Oral Statement (PDF) Testimony (PDF)

05/16/2005
Agencies Issue Credit Risk Management Guidance for Home Equity Lending
Release 2005-48

05/06/2005
Acting Comptroller Williams Discusses Management and Supervision of Reputation Risk In Large Banking Organizations; Stresses Important Role of Ethics and Corporate Values
Release 2005-45 | Speech (PDF)

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