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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 was created in 1933 to insure deposits and promote safe and sound banking practices.  

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City  The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 following an era marked by financial panics and economic depressions.  Its principal goal then was economic stability.  This goal is still important today, along with current objectives such as stable prices, high employment, and economic growth.  In addition to working toward these aims through its conducts of monetary policy, the Federal Reserve is a bank for banks, a bank for the U.S. government, and a supervisor and regulator of banks.  

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council The 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.

National Information Center of the Federal Reserve System.  The National Information Center (NIC) provides comprehensive information on banks and other institutions for which  the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest including both domestic and foreign banking organizations operating in the U.S. The NIC includes the organizational structure of financial institutions and financial information for some of those institutions.  

Conference of State Bank Supervisors  The Conference of State Bank Supervisors is the nation’s leading advocate for the state banking system and the only national organization dedicated to advancing the state banking system.  

October 15, 2002