Politics

At an industry conference, a Federal Reserve official spoke about standardizing climate risk disclosures, while a representative from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency examined the red-state backlash against banks that disfavor fossil fuels.

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.

The country's agricultural industry is struggling with rising costs, disrupted shipping routes and bombed-out crop fields. The Ukraine Agricultural Loan Reimbursement Program offers to ease the pain by covering 10% of principal payments for ag loans.

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.

JPMorgan Chase has teamed up with the software firm Datamaran to develop a data-analysis tool for clients to gauge not just the environmental, social and governance risks facing portfolio companies, but also the ESG risks that such assets pose to the world around them.

The operational melding of highly regulated banks and less-regulated fintechs led acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu to warn of the potential for another financial crisis.

Technology designed to direct more consumers online can create difficulties for groups that rely on branches and other in-person services, according to Janis Bowdler, a racial equity counselor with the Treasury Department.

Lawmakers in the nation's most populous state failed to pass a measure, opposed by industry groups, that would have required larger companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions. Publicly traded companies may soon face similar requirements at the federal level.

The Federal Reserve has made clear it intends to stamp out inflation no matter what, and that means interest rates are likely returning to the old normal of the  late 1980s and 1990s.  But interest rates on savings accounts haven't caught up. 

Britain's prospects as a crypto hub remain uncertain after Liz Truss won the race to be its new prime minister, leaving entrepreneurs and investors wondering what policies — if any — await the digital asset industry under fresh leadership.

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.

As the GSEs enter their 15th year in conservatorship, shareholders are wondering when they'll get their company back.

Leaders of the Bank Policy Institute and The Clearing House say their conferences are neither profit centers nor potential conflicts of interest for regulators in response to a recent BankThink piece that describes the meeting as an example of overly cozy relationships between banks and regulators.

The 117th Congress has been surprisingly kind to the banking industry as a whole so far. Can the trend last through the fall? 

A gathering in New York next week demonstrates the pay-to-play culture of high-end banking conferences.

With taxpayer dollars and creative deals, these nonprofit funding institutions can help recruit private-sector capital off the sidelines and into underserved markets, leveraging as much as $8 in private funding for every $1 that comes from the government.

The reduction in banks' assessments marks the fourth time in four years that the OCC has cut the semiannual regulatory fees that fund supervisory work.

The Federal Reserve will roll out its much-anticipated instant payments system, known as FedNow, in the middle of next year. Yet many questions remain about who it will serve, how it will work and how quickly community banks will buy in to it.

Goldman Sachs Group is tapping the former No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund and veteran of the Trump administration's trade wars with China to strengthen its ties with international governments.