Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said Friday that the central bank should weigh financial stability risks against stalled growth as it considers refinements to the bank capital framework and merger rules.

Interest rate increases by central banks have compounding effects and could exacerbate weaknesses in the global financial system, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard argued in a speech Friday.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has deflected requests from a top critic, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for details of financial transactions by central bank officials, risking an escalation of tensions with lawmakers over disclosure issues.

A half-dozen of the largest banks in the country will participate in the Federal Reserve's climate scenario analysis exercise next year. Findings from the program will inform supervision policies on managing climate and transition risks.

In a policy proposal published Tuesday, Fed staffers called for supervisory changes to accommodate banks with commercial real estate loans still reeling from COVID.

The amount of money that investors are parking at a major Federal Reserve facility climbed to yet another all-time high as funds sought out places to stash short-term cash.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said a shifting landscape has made it difficult for community banks to compete. She called for bank merger reform to make community bank M&A easier.

Republicans from the Senate Banking and House Financial Services committee argue the crypto bank should have been granted access to the Fed's payment systems, warn of 'dangerous precedent' on state banking regulation.

Most Americans are more indebted than ever, underscoring a persistent and widening wealth divide in the U.S.

A new proposal calls for systemically important transaction clearing firms to update their practices on handling risks related to cyberattacks and climate change.

Two new academic research papers consider what the Fed is trying to communicate and what it means.

For at least several weeks, Federal Reserve officials have been peppering Goldman management with questions and follow-ups in a process that's continuing, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The newly installed Fed vice chair for supervision outlined his vision for his role in his debut policy speech last week. Advocacy groups are happy, but have some unanswered questions.

The regulators issued a joint statement Friday morning reaffirming their commitment to the international regulatory framework, but it remains to be seen if they will do so by the Basel Committee's January deadline.

A Government Accountability Office report found that regulators scaled back supervisory examinations during the pandemic in part because of banks' technological shortcomings.

The new Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision called for capital requirements that target higher-risk activities and more complex organizations; merger decisions that factor in a deal's impact on accessibility of financial services; and better tests for evaluating banks' preparedness for climate change.

The former Fed vice chair for supervision said the recent ruling in West Virginia v. the EPA will not 'gut' the administrative state, but it could be a needed restraint.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Wednesday that there are signs that inflation is easing, but the central bank has no intention of laying off the throttle.

Major foreign banks are just as important to the U.S. financial system as large domestic banks, and ought to be regulated as such.

A shift is underway at the Federal Reserve in how to describe neutral — the interest rate level that neither stimulates nor restrains growth — as it debates how much higher to hike.