Podcasts

In a two-part episode of the FDIC Podcast, we take a trip down memory lane to recall some of the recent (and not so recent) financial crises, how we recovered from those disruption, and what that means for us today. In his more than 35 years at the FDIC, Art Murton, Deputy to the Chairman for Financial Stability, has seen it all. Since joining the agency as an economist in 1986, Art has had a front row seat for all the ups and downs in the banking and financial sectors.

Risk is all around us. The FDIC recently published its latest comprehensive summary of emerging risks in the U.S. banking system. FDIC researchers Krishna Patel and Kathy Kalser sit down for a conversation focusing on the risks facing our nation's banks.

Most of us have at least one bank or credit union account to help manage our money but millions of people are 'unbanked,' forced to rely on a patchwork of higher cost financial products and services outside of the regulated banking space. The FDIC’s Leonard Chanin and Jonathan Mintz of the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund discuss why it is so important to bring unbanked families into our financial system.

Three words are increasingly becoming part of our national conversation: diversity, equity and inclusion. FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and Nikita Pearson, Director of the FDIC's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, discuss how to turn these aspirational words into something tangible to benefit those historically disconnected from our banking system.