Prior to 2007, the FDIC Board of Directors reviewed premium rates
semiannually. As of January 1, 1993, when the risk based assessment
system was introduced, each bank and thrift paid an annual assessment
rate of
between 23 and 31 cents per $100 of assessable deposits. After
the BIF reached the Designated Reserve Ratio (DRR) of 1.25 percent
at the end
of May 1995, the Board approved a reduction in assessment rates
for BIF members to a range of between 4 and 31 cents per $100 in
assessable deposits.
In November 1995, the Board approved a new assessment rate structure
for the BIF, with a range of between 0 and 27 cents per $100 in
assessable deposits, effective January 1, 1996.
The Deposit Insurance
Funds Act of 1996 provided for the capitalization of the SAIF
at the target DRR of 1.25 percent by means of a one-time
special assessment on SAIF-member institutions. In December 1996,
the Board lowered
SAIF assessment rates to a range of between 0 and 27 cents per
$100 in assessable deposits, which is identical to the rate schedule
previously
approved for BIF members. The new rates were effective October
1, 1996, for
previously thrift-chartered SAIF members that became bank-chartered (known
as “Sasser institutions”) and bank-chartered BIF members
that held SAIF deposits (known as “BIF Oakar institutions”), and
effective on January 1, 1997, for all other SAIF-insured institutions.
As a result
of the
merger of the BIF and SAIF to form the DIF effective March 31,
2006, all insured
institutions are subject to the same assessment rate schedule.
The
FDIC merged the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) and the Savings Association
Insurance Fund (SAIF) to form the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF)
on March 31, 2006 in accordance with the Federal Deposit Insurance
Reform Act of
2005. As a result of the merger of the BIF and SAIF, all insured
institutions are subject to the same assessment rate schedule.
The
amount each institution
is assessed is based upon statutory factors that include the
balance of insured deposits as well as the degree of risk the institution
poses to
the insurance fund.
Insurance
Fund Ratios - The Designated Reserve
Ratio (DRR) is the level that the FDIC Board would like
the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) to achieve as a percentage
of estimated insured deposits. Current legislation permits
the FDIC
Board to set the DRR between 1.15 percent and 1.50 percent
(previous legislation had a hard target of 1.25 percent).
In 2007, the FDIC
Board set the DRR at 1.25 percent. The Deposit Insurance
Fund (DIF) Reserve Ratio is the current (or projected
or historical) fund balance as a percentage of current (or
projected or historical) estimated insured deposits.
Memoranda
on Assessment Rate Cases and Outlook for the DIF
Before 2007, assessment rate cases were semi-annual reports
to the FDIC Board of Directors recommending the deposit insurance
assessment rates
for the
DIF (or, prior to the fund merger, the BIF and the SAIF). Rates are no
longer set semiannually in accordance with the risk-based assessments
rule adopted in November 2006.
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2008
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Prior Assessment
Periods
Financial
Institution Letters (FILs)
A directory of Financial Institution Letters (FILs) pertaining to risk-related
premiums.
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