FDIC Faces Internal Reckoning Over Toxic-Culture Allegations

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is facing an internal reckoning over allegations of widespread harassment and discrimination, with many employees left skeptical about the agency’s commitment to overhaul its culture.

In the weeks since a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that a toxic culture at the FDIC had prompted many female bank examiners to quit over the years, there have been internal debates over who should oversee an external investigation and blowback from employees on multiple division-wide calls.