Podcasts

Born in a small Texas town, Arleas Upton Kea came to the FDIC nearly 40 years ago as a young attorney and rose through the agency's senior ranks in good times and during moments of crisis. Meet Arleas and her incredible legacy of public service.

In our post-pandemic world, will there be lasting impacts to the commercial real estate sector? The FDIC's Bob DiChiara joins three community bankers who examine of how commercial real estate is trending where they are —John Buran, Flushing Bank in Uniondale, New York; Jim Edwards, United Bank in Griffin, Georgia; and Joanne Kim, Commonwealth Business Bank in Los Angeles.

In this episode, Chairman McWilliams speaks with Microsoft’s Anita Mehra and Truist CEO William H. Rogers, Sr. about the Mission-Driven Bank Fund, an innovative investment vehicle designed to drive private-sector investment to support FDIC-insured Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs).

In part two of this special episode of the FDIC Podcast, we continue our historical look back on the financial crises that shaped how our banking and financial systems operate today. Art Murton, Deputy to the Chairman for Financial Stability, picks up where we left off in part one —the collapse of the nation’s savings and loans in the 1980s.