Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Fed's Kashkari says banks arguing against regulation ‘make stuff up’

10/16/20

Kashkari, who oversaw the 2008 bank bailouts as a then-Treasury official, has been outspoken in favor of higher capital requirements since he took over at the Minneapolis Fed in 2016.

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Does Fed already have the power to tackle racial inequality?

08/23/20

The Federal Reserve could ease capital rules, foster the creation of special-purppose banks and take other steps to strengthen minority communities and businesses without legislation being sought in Congress — if it has the will to do so, experts say.

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Fed's Kashkari says banks should raise money, halt dividends

04/16/20

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari says that large U.S. banks should raise $200 billion from private investors and stop paying dividends so they can support the economy.

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Fed’s approach to revamping post-crisis rules leaves no one satisfied

01/29/19

Banks say regulatory relief efforts should go even further, while public interest groups — and even one of the Fed’s regional offices — say the proposals to roll back supervisory standards go too far.

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Minneapolis Fed's TBTF plan has some GSE-sized holes

04/09/18

The reserve bank's proposal to address banks and nonbanks that remain "too big to fail" does not include two of the largest such institutions: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Payment fraud on the rise at U.S. banks, credit unions: Fed survey

02/06/18

The results suggest that even as financial institutions implement more sophisticated fraud-mitigation techniques, they have not been keeping pace with criminals.

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Fed's Kashkari playing long game in plan to end 'too big to fail'

01/10/18

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari acknowledges that his plan to raise capital at the biggest banks and ease burden for smaller ones isn't likely to be enacted soon, but says its time will come.

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Reg-lite for small institutions, higher capital for big banks: Minn. Fed TBTF plan

01/10/18

The final plan to end "too big to fail" suggests that banks with less than $10 billion be subject to a much less complicated risk-based capital regime, akin to what was required in Basel I.

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