Under the agency's proposal, institutions would prepay three years' worth of premiums to the fund that insures customer deposits in case of bank failure. Federal regulators today proposed borrowing $45 billion from the nation's banks to help rebuild the fund that insures customer deposits as an increasing number of failures threaten to drain the fund's reserves.

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