Financial and business terms. 2012.
Savings Association Insurance Fund - SAIF — A government insurance fund for savings and loans and thrift institutions in the United States that protects depositors from losses due to institutional failure. The Savings Association Insurance Fund was created in the aftermath of the savings… … Investment dictionary
Savings Association Insurance Fund — /ˌseɪvɪŋz əˌsəυsieɪʃ(ə)n ɪn ʃυərəns fʌnd/ noun an insurance fund set up in 1989 to provide insurance to savings and loan associations. Abbreviation SAIF … Dictionary of banking and finance
Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) — A unit of the FDIC that provides insurance protections for banks that are not classified as a savings and loan association. As with all FDIC protection, the BIF provides coverage of up to $250,000 per customer account for insolvent banks. The BIF … Investment dictionary
Savings and loan association — A savings and loan association, also known as a thrift, is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and making mortgage loans. The term is mainly used in the United States; similar institutions in the United Kingdom … Wikipedia
Savings and loan crisis — The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly referred to as the S L crisis) was the failure of 747 savings and loan associations (S Ls) in the United States. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around… … Wikipedia
savings and loan — / seɪvɪŋz ən ləυn/, savings and loan association / seɪvɪŋz ən ləυn əˌsəυsieɪʃ(ə)n/ noun US a financial association which accepts and pays interest on deposits from investors and lends money to people who are buying property. The loans are in the… … Dictionary of banking and finance
National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund — Banking in the United States Monetary policy The Federal Reserve System Regulation Lending Credit card Deposit accounts Savings account Checking account Money market account Certificate of deposit … Wikipedia
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — FDIC … Wikipedia
Insurance — This article is about risk management. For Insurance (blackjack), see Blackjack. For Insurance run (baseball), see Insurance run. In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a… … Wikipedia
Deposit insurance — Experiences from bank runs during the Great Depression led to the introduction of deposit insurance in the US … Wikipedia
