Savings Association Insurance Fund

A pool of money created in 1989 by the FDIC to insure deposits made in savings and loan associations (or thrifts). The SAIF was created to separate thrift insurance money from regular bank insurance money (which came from the Bank Insurance Fund). While this was likely beneficial for a time because of the savings and loan crisis, it created a perverse incentive for banks and thrifts to reclassify themselves as the other (i.e., a bank to a thrift or a thrift to a bank), depending on which fund had lower fees. This led to the passage of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act of 2005, which abolished the Savings Association Insurance Fund and the Bank Insurance Fund and created a single Deposit Insurance Fund.

SAIF

See Savings Association Insurance Fund.

SAIF

Acronym	Definition
SAIF➣Savings Association Insurance Fund
SAIF➣Spatial Archive and Interchange Format
SAIF➣Sharjah Airport International Free (Zone; UAE)
SAIF➣State Accident Insurance Fund (Oregon)
SAIF➣Success after Infertility
SAIF➣Small Animal Imaging Facility (various locations)
SAIF➣Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (UK)
SAIF➣South Africa Infrastructure Fund
SAIF➣Seniors against Investment Fraud (various locations)
SAIF➣Switching Activity Interchange Format (integrated circuits design)
SAIF➣Supportive Assistance for Individuals and Families (New Jersey)
SAIF➣Société des Auteurs d' Images Fixes (France)
SAIF➣Science and Aircraft Integration Facility (US NASA)
SAIF➣Saudi Arabian Investment Fund
SAIF➣SIDPERS Assignment Instruction File
SAIF➣Standard Avionics Integrated Fuze