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The Federal Reserve Board finalized a regulation that further narrows its ability to provide emergency funds to companies in a crisis.

The Federal Reserve Wednesday finalized certain changes to its stress testing program for 2016, including phasing out certain capital requirements and delaying the implementation of others.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it will begin to implement significant changes to its supervisory program — particularly for large financial institutions — following the recommendations of yearlong internal investigation into how the central bank examines banks.

The Federal Reserve Board will likely subject large banks to higher minimum capital levels as part of their annual stress tests than the capital requirements that have resulted from past tests, Fed Gov. Daniel Tarullo said Monday.

The government's new proposal for operationalizing the wind-down powers of Dodd-Frank is just institutionalizing "too big to fail."

Quality control should come early in the production line, just as Japanese automakers discovered when they began to gain market share.

Overhauling the splintered multiagency regulatory framework is necessary to promote the stability of the financial system as a whole.

Ally Financial in Detroit plans to redeem about $1.3 billion of preferred stock, opening the door to a possible stock buyback next year.

The advisory committee established to address defects in the equity markets was stacked with industry insiders and, more troubling, includes firms implicated in serious wrongdoing.

There were at least two bad omens for large banks in the Republican debate held late Tuesday — even the most business-friendly candidates felt free to sharply criticize them and many seemed ill-informed about the current system.