The FDIC

Given the committee's concerns about potential retaliation against whistleblowers discussed in previous letters to the FDIC, the FDIC's inclusion of a novel watermark raises serious questions about whether the agency it attempting to identify the source of committee materials.

Low energy prices have led to a sharp increase in non-current loans to oil and gas producers, the full impact of low energy prices on the banking industry remains to be seen particularly for consumer and business loans in energy-producing regions of the country.

Each plan has shortcomings or deficiencies, no firm yet shows itself capable of being resolved in an orderly fashion through bankruptcy. Thus, the goal to end too big to fail and protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts remains just that: only a goal.