Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve
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The proposed capital rule risks driving borrowers away from the traditional banking industry and into the arms of shadow banks, whose support during stressful times can be fleeting.
February 29 -
The Narrow Bank — a pass-through bank that first applied for a Federal Reserve master account in 2017 — is appealing an "ill-founded" December decision by the Federal Reserve to deny its application for a master account.
February 26 -
It won't be easy, but implementing a common-sense overhaul of how we measure banks' liquidity would help avoid the kind of crisis we experienced in 2023.
February 20 -
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said Friday that Fed supervisors continue to draw on lessons learned from last March's bank failures—including heightened scrutiny—addressing risks banks currently face including firm asset growth, liquidity pressures and plummeting commercial real estate values.
February 16 -
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pulled back from criticizing the Federal Home Loan banks, seemingly taking off the table the idea of changing the system's role as a lender to troubled banks.
February 15 -
The global debt crisis requires sustained attention from leaders and institutions in the U.S. Failure to address it will doom untold millions of people to suffering.
February 14 -
The Federal Reserve expects to cut interest rates three times this year, some say as early as March, if data alllow those moves. Following the Jan. 30-31 FOMC meeting, Garrett Melson, portfolio strategist at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions, will provide his take on the meeting and Chair Jerome Powell's press conference.
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Bankers during recent earnings reports predicted lower deposit costs as 2024 wears on. But with inflation still elevated and the jobs market strong, the Federal Reserve probably won't begin lowering rates — and thus easing the drag on lenders' profits — until May at the earliest.
February 5 -
The central bank massively increased the money supply during the pandemic. We paid the price with high interest rates throttling the real estate industry.
January 31 -
The central bank granted 15 large banks eight additional months to prepare their resolution plans. Federal regulators are currently weighing changes to their resolution planning framework.
January 17