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On March 23, 2009, the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve, and the United States Treasury Department announced the Public–Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets. The program is designed to provide liquidity for so-called "toxic assets" on the balance sheets of financial institutions.
A factsheet or fact sheet, also called fact file, is a single-page document containing essential information about a product, substance, service or other topic. Factsheets are frequently used to provide information to an end user, consumer or member of the public in concise, simple language. They generally contain key safety points, operating ...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC) is a United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks. [7] : 15 The FDIC was created by the Banking Act of 1933, enacted during the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system.
Deposit insurance in Iceland is handled by Depositors' and Investors' Guarantee Fund (Tryggingarsjóður) and covers a minimum of 20,887 euros. However, the fund was drastically insufficient to cover the bank failures of the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis, particularly Icesave. This case shows the limits of deposit insurance in ...
The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 ( FIRREA ), is a United States federal law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. It established the Resolution Trust Corporation to close hundreds of insolvent thrifts and provided funds to pay out insurance to their depositors.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 2005 (Title II, subtitle B of Pub. L. 109–171 (text) (PDF), 110 Stat. 9, enacted February 8, 2006, with a companion statute, Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005, Pub. L. 109–173 (text) (PDF), 119 Stat. 3601, enacted February 15, 2006 ), was an act of the United ...
Flow of funds. Flow of funds accounts are a system of interrelated balance sheets for a nation, calculated periodically. There are two types of balance sheets: those showing. The aggregate assets and liabilities for financial and nonfinancial sectors, and. What sectors issue and hold financial assets (instruments) of a given type.
A money market fund (also called a money market mutual fund) is an open-end mutual fund that invests in short-term debt securities such as US Treasury bills and commercial paper. Money market funds are managed with the goal of maintaining a highly stable asset value through liquid investments, while paying income to investors in the form of ...