The added cost will affect both customers and shareholders of the nation's 12,300 insured banks.

That's when we decided it was important, our predecessors, to federally insure banks.

Reliance on government to insure banks from risk is a peculiar stance for any capitalist.

Insured commercial banks earned $18 billion in net income in the first three months of this year.

They were built before the government insured banks.

Companies Home Savings of America asked to shift its deposit insurance to the agency that insures banks.

The cost of insuring banks against default on their debt - through credit default swaps - fell dramatically between 2002 and 2007.

It cannot even insure banks without losing hundreds of billions of dollars; how can it conquer poverty?

(He saw major roles for the state in enforcing antitrust laws and insuring banks and in other areas, too.)

Rate posted by a majority of top 25 (by assets in domestic offices) insured U.S.-chartered commercial banks.