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How Deposit Insurance Protects Your Money When Banks Fail
The FDIC has paid every insured deposit since 1933. The $250,000 limit runs per bank and per ownership category, and the NCUA runs the same math for credit unions.

The FDIC has paid every insured deposit since 1933. The $250,000 limit runs per bank and per ownership category, and the NCUA runs the same math for credit unions.

When the last teller window in town stays open, the reason is rarely the branch's own economics — it is everything the branch quietly carries.

Programmable payments attach rules to money, and tokenized deposits give those rules something safe to move. Here is how the two layers fit together.