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AGENCIES REPEAL PROHIBITION ON PAYING INTEREST ON DEMAND ACCOUNTS

Both the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation published final rules repealing regulations that prohibited payment of interest on demand deposits, effective July 21, 2011. The Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation Q was repealed on July 12, 2011. The FDIC’s Part 329 was repealed on July 6, 2011. The regulations had been in place since 1933. The repeals were required by Section 627 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act […]