Getting Back to Business. FDIC Approves Resolution Plan Rule and Finds Consensus on Mergers

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There’s been no shortage of sturm und drang at the FDIC. But today it was back to business as the agency’s board met for the first time since Chairman Martin Gruenberg announced his intention to resign. The five directors were all pretty cordial and even reached some consensus in the politically fraught realm of merger policy, unanimously backing a prop…