Jerome Powell

Bank regulators aren't doing enough to address economic inequality

03/27/19

The Financial Stability Oversight Council should adopt measures that help vulnerable communities.

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Trump considering Stephen Moore for Fed board: Sources

03/22/19

Moore is a founder of the conservative Club for Growth and served on the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.

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Fed 'independence' is a slippery slope

03/21/19

The role of the central bank has changed over the decades, but presidential pressure on the Fed has been a constant.

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Fed chief hints Wells Fargo's regulatory issues are far from over

03/20/19

Speaking at a press conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the bank’s risk management failures have required a dramatic overhaul of its processes.

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Fed’s Brainard offers glimpse of what revamped CRA could look like

03/12/19

While the OCC has led the charge on modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act, Gov. Lael Brainard gave a rundown of new ideas under discussion — from updating assessment boundaries to a comprehensive community development test.

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Fed votes against deploying big-bank capital buffer

03/06/19

The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to keep the countercyclical capital buffer at its current level of zero, ending some speculation that the board could be looking at a possible increase.

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Fed eyes interest on excess reserves changes for certain banks

03/06/19

The Federal Reserve said it wants to discourage banks from using returns on Fed account balances as a business model.

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Is Dodd-Frank oversight council still relevant?

03/05/19

The interagency panel formed to head off approaching systemic risks must figure out its next move after having undone designations of nonbank firms.

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Capital levels are just right, Powell tells House members

02/27/19

Addressing lawmakers for the second straight day, the Fed chairman defended his agency’s refinements to the post-crisis regime.

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Democrats to Fed's Powell: Take hard look at BB&T-SunTrust deal

02/26/19

Lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee pushed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for details about how he plans to review the proposed merger between the two regional banks.

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