Bank mergers, climate change and fintech rules are instrumental changes that the Center for American Progress is calling for Biden regulators to champion.

After blocking the Biden administration’s first pick for vice chair for supervision, five Republicans on the committee voted to approve Barr, clearing his path to confirmation. 

The creation of a U.S. dollar central bank digital currency is an existential threat to the banking industry and needs to be treated as such.

The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee said he would vote for Michael Barr to serve as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision. The committee will vote on Barr this afternoon.

Lauded as the first step toward comprehensive regulation of digital assets, the package hits at the heart of a critical debate between banks and fintechs: Who gets a Fed account?

The supervisory checkups examine the capital resiliency of 34 large banks.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu lauded the agencies' unified Community Reinvestment Act proposal's focus on climate policies, while Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard trumpeted the data-driven aspects of the proposal.

The president invited Jerome Powell to the White House Tuesday and voiced his support of the Federal Reserve’s independence in the fight against inflation. Some see the move as Biden ducking blame for rising prices.

The Federal Reserve is about to start shrinking its $8.9 trillion balance sheet, deploying a second tool along side higher interest rates to curb inflation, though officials don’t know just how effective it will be.

President Biden used a rare meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to declare that he’s respecting the central bank’s independence — while simultaneously shifting responsibility for taming decades-high inflation ahead of the November midterms.

George's departure will come around the same time that Chicago Fed chief Charles Evans steps down. Both will have turned 65.

The amount of money parked at a major Federal Reserve facility climbed to yet another all-time high, surpassing the $2 trillion milestone for the first time, as investors struggled to find places to invest their cash in the short term.  

Wall Street lenders are calling on the U.S. government to hold off on launching a digital dollar, arguing that a virtual currency backed by the Federal Reserve risks draining hundreds of billions of dollars out of the banking system.

Corrigan thrived on crisis situations, a colleague said. He received plenty of practice in 25 years at the Fed and another two decades at Goldman Sachs.

The Biden administration’s pick for Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision faced questions about climate change, digital assets and the central bank’s independence. But he did not meet the same resistance from Republicans as the White House’s first choice, Sarah Bloom Raskin, observers said.

The central bank has a long history of diluting the effectiveness of the Community Reinvestment Act.

The Senate voted 80-19 Thursday to confirm Powell to the top spot on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He joins Philip Jefferson, who was confirmed by the Senate to serve on the board Wednesday night, and Lisa Cook, who was confirmed Tuesday night.

The Michigan State University economist endured a grueling political fight over her nomination and secured a party-line vote in her favor on Tuesday night. 

Roughly 24,000 people had new foreclosures listed on their credit reports in the first quarter, up from about 9,000 three months earlier, a Federal Reserve Bank of New York report says. States are trying to cushion the blow on homeowners now that many pandemic-related federal protections have ended.

The Federal Reserve governor said it isn't the central bank’s place to set regulations for specific risk scenarios, and he downplayed the risk that climate change poses to financial stability.