The recent revision of Volcker Rule limits on banks' ability to speculate with their own capital has cost regulators a meaningful supporter: Paul Volcker.

FedNow will provide another option for real-time payments but executives will have to decide if this option is right for their institution.

The Fed is seeking feedback on a "Building Block Approach" to risk-based capital standards for firms heavily engaged in insurance activities.

The mortgage agencies would be privatized under Trump administration plan; central bank will probably cut rates by 25 bps, not 50 bps, at its next meeting.

Although those fintech companies whose primary service is the provision of faster payments may face a future threat for the proposed FedNow Service, fintech companies may also benefit from the availability of a Fed-led real-time payments network, Jeffrey Alberts and Dustin Nofziger of Pryor Cashman write.

The top regulatory official at the central bank said it could deploy either one of two tools to revise the proposed stress capital buffer. The plan aims to streamline the stress test program.

A new kind of institution wants to make the interest rate the Federal Reserve pays to its member institutions more widely available, but that could have big implications for monetary policy.

The banks, which plan to merge as Truist Financial, are expected soon to start selling hundreds of branches in the Southeast to satisfy antitrust concerns and increase efficiency.

The Fed's development of a real-time payments systems has sparked a pointless debate about paper checks.

An agency with a mission to protect consumers deserves to have a role in approving M&A deals.

Crypto technology will play a major role in the central bank's real-time payments system.

Readers react to jilted GSE legacy shareholders and a proposal making it harder to cite disparate impact, criticize Democrats asking the CFPB to stop its payday rule revamp and more.

Community banks and tech companies that are happy the central bank is building a next-generation system are not as pleased with its four- to five-year timeline. But big banks see the slow rollout as an opportunity to expand their own instant payment network.

The Fed's development of a real-time payments systems has sparked a pointless debate about paper checks.

New unit will work with foreign governments; standards too soft on those without conventional paychecks.

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina called for the panel to hold a hearing on what he termed the danger that the Federal Reserve will meddle in the 2020 presidential election.

The Clearing House has been quite clear that it did not think the Federal Reserve's FedNow real-time settlement service would be necessary. But some of its executives are rethinking that stance.

Trump's re-election arguably presents a threat to the U.S. and global economy, to the Fed's independence and its ability to achieve its employment and inflation objectives, the former N.Y. Fed chief says.

Crypto technology will play a major role in the central bank's real-time payments system.

The bank started buying more Treasurys and mortgage-backeds over a year ago, long before talk about rate cuts. What did it know that its rivals didn't?