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I am pleased to report that overall, the deposit insurance funds remained financially

sound and exhibited healthy earnings throughout 2005. Additionally, estimated

losses from probable failures for both the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) and the

Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF) remain at or near historically low levels

for both deposit insurance funds.

For the fourteenth consecutive year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office

(GAO) issued unqualified audit opinions on the three funds administered by the

FDIC (BIF, SAIF and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC)

Resolution Fund). We are especially proud of this record and have dedicated 

ourselves to ensuring that it continues in 2006 and beyond.

Financial highlights during 2005 include:

The BIF reported comprehensive income (net income plus current period unrealized

gains/losses on available-for-sale (AFS) securities) of $680 million in 2005 compared

to $1.004 billion in 2004. This reduction of $324 million was primarily due to an

increase in unrealized losses on AFS securities of $279 million, lower recoveries of

prior years’ provisions for insurance losses of $143 million, an increase in operating

expenses of $25 million, and a decrease in assessment revenues of $43 million,

offset by an increase of $161 million in interest revenue on U.S. Treasury obligations.

As of December 31, 2005, the fund balance was $35.5 billion, up from $34.8 billion

at year-end 2004.

The SAIF reported comprehensive income of $409 million in 2005, compared 

to $480 million in 2004. This reduction of $71 million was primarily due to an

increase in unrealized losses on AFS securities of $93 million and lower recoveries

of prior years’ provisions for insurance losses of $50 million, offset by a $73 million

increase in interest revenue on U.S. Treasury obligations. As of December 31, 2005,

the fund balance was $13.1 billion, up from $12.7 billion at year-end 2004.

For both BIF and SAIF, higher interest revenue on U.S. Treasury obligations

stemmed from higher overnight and short-term Treasury yields, as well as 

higher inflation compensation on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. However,

the higher interest revenue was more than offset by an increase in unrealized 

losses that resulted from a rise in Treasury market yields on short- to intermediatematurity AFS securities during 2005.

During 2005, we continued our efforts to provide effective stewardship of the

resources of the funds managed by the FDIC. The 2006 Corporate Operating

Budget, approved by the FDIC Board of Directors on December 5, 2005, is 

5 percent less than the 2005 Corporate Operating budget. Projected savings were

achieved primarily through significant staff reductions. Additionally, the completion

of a number of major capital investment projects will permanently reduce the

Corporation's cost base going forward. We are especially proud of our staff for

successfully managing, to near completion, the Virginia Square facility expansion.

The project is expected to be completed in early 2006 both on time and under

budget and will result in substantial savings over our current leased space 

headquarters’ facilities.

Message from the Chief Financial Officer

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The FDIC successfully implemented the New Financial Environment (NFE), 

modernizing our aging, highly customized and complex financial systems 

environment. This major systems modernization is part of our corporate-wide 

initiative to achieve greater operational efficiencies, as well as to reduce the 

high costs of maintaining the expensive and outdated legacy systems that 

were replaced or eliminated as a result of implementing NFE.

We successfully consolidated numerous existing information technology (IT) 

contracts into fewer, longer-term strategic contracts. These ten-year agreements

encompass a broad range of IT services including infrastructure management,

application development and maintenance, organizational and management 

support, data management and software process improvement. This IT contract

consolidation initiative is expected to reduce costs, improve services and provide

enhanced accountability.

With respect to the requirements of the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity 

Act of 1982, the FDIC’s management made an assessment and concluded that 

the system of internal controls, taken as a whole, complies with internal control

standards prescribed by the GAO and provides reasonable assurance that the

related objectives are being met.

During 2006, we will continue to work toward achieving the Corporation’s 

strategic goals and objectives. These include identifying and addressing risks 

to the insurance funds, improving the deposit insurance system, and providing

Congress, other regulatory agencies, insured depository institutions, and the 

public with critical and timely information and analysis on the financial condition 

of both the banking industry and the FDIC-managed funds.

Sincerely,

Steven O. App