Reporter

Donna Borak is the Federal Reserve reporter for American Banker. Based in Washington, her coverage has stretched from covering the White House's plan to reform the government-sponsored enterprises to new global banking regulations, known as Basel III.

Previously, she was a business reporter covering the defense industry for The Associated Press in Washington, where she was an APME nominee for her work on the Walter Reed Medical Center scandal. She began her career as a European economics writer for United Press International, where she filed special reports from Brussels and Hong Kong. She is conversant in Arabic, and has a M.S. in journalism from Boston University.

Housing, Fiscal Policy Still Drag on Economy: Fed's Raskin
May 16, 2013 Federal Reserve Gov. Sarah Bloom Raskin warned Thursday that the government's tightening fiscal policies and a slow housing...

Fed Ready to Raise Capital Standards If TBTF Remains Unsolved
May 14, 2013 Top Federal Reserve Board officials appear to have reached a consensus on how to deal with the "too big to fail" dilemma: wait...

OCC Official: Countries Making Progress Adopting Basel III
May 14, 2013 A senior U.S. regulatory official said Tuesday that global policymakers charged with adopting higher capital and liquidity...

Eighteen Firms Will Submit Bank-Led Stress Test Results
May 13, 2013 The Federal Reserve Board said Monday that the largest U.S. bank holding companies will submit results of their company-run,...

Bernanke Warns of Risks from Shadow Banking System
May 10, 2013 The Fed chairman highlighted ongoing efforts to monitor threats and vulnerabilities in four critical areas: systemically...

FHFA's DeMarco Offers Two Ways Forward on Housing Finance Reform
May 9, 2013 Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward DeMarco outlined two strategies on Thursday to help draw private capital...

Foreign Regulators Battle Fed Oversight Plan
May 9, 2013 International regulators and the institutions they supervise are objecting to a proposal by the Federal Reserve Board that...

OCC's Curry Endorses Revisiting Basel III Leverage Ratio
May 9, 2013 Comptroller of the Currency Tom Curry said regulators should take another look at the leverage ratio as part of a Basel III...

Banks' Student Lending Outlook Stays Stable: Fed Survey
May 6, 2013 Most banks involved in student lending appear unlikely to change their holdings of private student loans over the next year,...

Fed's Tarullo Suggests Higher Capital as Fix for Wholesale Funding Risk
May 3, 2013 Federal Reserve Board Gov. Daniel Tarullo said Friday that he was still concerned about ongoing risks from banks' potential...