Politics

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller deconstructed fellow board members' arguments that a central bank digital currency would further the dollar's status as the global reserve currency.

Campaign rhetoric and industry political spending shows that private equity and investment firms have taken banks' place in the hot seat.

A preemptive move to establish an SRO could create necessary safeguards while holding off burdensome intrusion from the federal government.

For some bankers, net zero is like a new year's resolution — a pledge one makes and often breaks before a year has passed.

Loan officers say that the platform discourages them from originating loans.

The Wyoming-chartered digital bank, which is suing the Federal Reserve for the right to a master account, says the central bank is applying a double standard on crypto custody.

With many consumers using online banking and mobile apps and consenting to data sharing without truly understanding what this means, the discussions around open finance are becoming more intense.

Postal banking in the U.S. hasn't gotten off the ground, partly because of strong resistance from American banks. But a successful trial offering of affordable consumer loans by Toronto-Dominion and Canada Post, and their plans to take them nationwide, are a reminder that the idea persists.

Rising interest rates could force some community banks to fall below a critical capital threshold that the Federal Housing Finance Agency uses to determine eligibility for Home Loan bank advances.

Minority farmers who sought to take advantage of a U.S. debt-assistance program claim in a lawsuit that the government failed to provide any of the promised relief and reneged on a deal to resolve their discrimination claims.

The biggest climate event of the calendar looks set to draw far fewer chief executives than it did just a year ago.

The central bank has recently stepped up its efforts to reduce its balance sheet, but doing that without forcing a liquidity crunch requires careful planning.

House Financial Services Committee ranking member Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., is poised to be a leading critic of the administration's regulatory policies in the next Congress.

The financial advisory firm cited recent conversations with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., where the current leadership is widely seen as unwelcoming of efforts to open new ILCs.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objectives are on a collision course with the post-2008 capital and liquidity framework, and it's time for regulators to decide what those reforms were for.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu referenced several large crypto firm meltdowns in the last year, including Voyager and Celsius.

The world's biggest climate-finance alliance has sought to dismiss reports that a number of Wall Street banks are threatening to leave, as it races to bring its house in order in the run-up to next month's COP27 climate summit.

Dozens of community bankers and housing experts offered their opinions on the Federal Home Loan Bank System, the first review in nearly 100 years. But the insurers, nonbanks and megabanks that use the system the most were largely absent from the debate.

BNPL needs and deserves a consumer-focused approach to regulation that takes account of its significant difference from other consumer credit offerings.

During a visit to Buffalo on Friday, New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said the central bank may need to keep cranking up interest rates to gain greater control over high inflation.