2025-04-15 | FIL-9-2025The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation permanently establishes electronic communications as the preferred method for supervisory correspondence, superseding temporary mail procedures implemented in March 2020. All FDIC-supervised financial institutions must utilize the FDIC Secure Email portal for official correspondence, with hardcopy submissions retained as a rare fallback option. This final instruction rescinds prior temporary filings and provides detailed procedures for securely transmitting supervision-related mail and email.