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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The central bank massively increased the money supply during the pandemic. We paid the price with high interest rates throttling the real estate industry.

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.

The Federal Reserve governor was one of two to vote against issuing the so-called Basel III endgame proposal. He says work is being done to address issues with the operational risk framework, but that regulators may need to go back to the drawing board for an adequate fix.

The Federal Reserve's inexplicable failure to enforce rules requiring Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group to serve as a "source of strength" for its subsidiary saddled the FDIC with billions in extra losses.