Opinions

The Federal Reserve is rethinking the size and scope of its holdings. Academics and industry analysts alike say liquidity reforms will be key to the process.

The central bank's long-held independence from government interference is under siege and its role as a regulator may be a wedge the president uses against it.

Two former mid-level employees at the Toronto-based bank received U.S. prison sentences for their roles in funneling nearly half a billion dollars through TD accounts.

At a House hearing last week, GOP lawmakers asked Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for advice on how to craft legislation to permanently change the CFPB's authority. The hearing highlighted a consensus among Republicans that administrative policy rollbacks are not enough.

The Supreme Court may have allowed the central bank to chart its own course on bank oversight for now, but discrepancies between two recent rulings set the stage for challenges.

Small Business Bank in Kansas failed on Friday, the second failure in a week and the fourth failure overall in 2026.

Banks must tell regulators of a serious breach within 36 hours under a codified rule. Regulators say they will tell banks 72 hours of their own data breaches, in a memo nobody can enforce.

The bank regulators say they will limit the sending and storage of highly sensitive supervisory information, including by using alternatives such as on-site reviews and requiring notifying banks of data compromises within 72 hours.

The central bank failed to prevent critical economic information from falling into the hands of "foreign adversaries," according to a report from its inspector general.

One of Sweden's biggest banks agreed to the penalty to resolve a multiyear investigation into its compliance failures. The New York State Department of Financial Services said Swedbank intentionally withheld information it was required to turn over.