Podcasts

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.

The agricultural sector is a big piece of our nation's economy and the fortunes of farmers are also tied closely to the health of the global economy. FDIC Researchers John Anderlik and Rich Cofer take us down on the farm to understand the ups and downs of farming and the farm banks that serve this sector.

Last year was a year most of us would gladly forget. The global pandemic turned our personal and economic lives upside down — but how did our banks fare and how did our banking system hold up? Pat Mitchell and Meg Hanrahan, two senior FDIC financial analysts, look back on 2020 and how our nation's banks navigated the storm.