The chair of the House Financial Services Committee called the last resort lending facility "a generation behind" broader capital markets. He said modernization should be part of the Federal Reserve's response to last year's bank failures.

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he'd like to see the central bank's holdings of mortgage-backed securities go to zero. 

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.

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.

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.

In a string of enforcement actions issued Thursday, the Federal Reserve barred one former banker from the industry for misappropriating confidential supervisory information and fined three others for misappropriating internal bank records.

Alberto Musalem, a finance professor with experience in both the public and private sectors, will take over the reins at the regional reserve bank in April.

Bank investors hope they can party like it's 1995, when the U.S. economy stayed healthy even after aggressive Federal Reserve rate hikes. But a few analysts are a bit more cautious over whether banks' loan books will hold up as well this time.

The American Bankers Association requested that President Joe Biden tell Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to study the impact of more robust bank regulation.

The Federal Open Market Committee meets Dec. 12 and 13 and in addition to their statement, they will issue a Summary of Economic Projections.

The Federal Reserve has allowed more than $1 trillion of assets to roll off its balance sheet. Chair Jerome Powell says he doesn't believe reserves in the banking system are nearing a level that would cause the Fed to slow down or stop.