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Eleven of the 24 individuals named to the top board posts of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks for 2022 are new to those positions. As noted in an announcement earlier this week, the Federal Reserve […]
Separate hearings on the nominations of candidates for chair and vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board will be held Jan. 11 and 13, respectively, the Senate Banking Committee said Wednesday. The hearing for Federal […]
More than 90 nominations were sent to the Senate Tuesday by the White House – including three for federal regulatory agencies, even though their names had been already submitted last year and (in one case) […]
Wild swings in the use of online/phone card payments, and those made in person, in successive years are outlined in updated results to the Federal Reserve’s payments study, released Wednesday – which also found that […]
Data on small business, small farm, and community development lending during 2020 was released Tuesday by federal banking regulators, fulfilling statutory requirements under federal anti-redlining laws. The Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. […]
Banks that choose to have their capital requirements determined under the voluntary community bank leverage ratio (CBLR) framework will be subject to a 9% CBLR beginning Jan. 1 to continue to qualify for the framework, […]
Regulators have decided to leave unchanged their definitions of qualified residential mortgage (QRM), the community-focused residential mortgage exemption, and the exemption for qualifying three-to-four-unit residential mortgage loans under their 2014 federal credit risk retention regulations. […]
Temporary “no-action” relief under Regulation O for companies that manage funds investing in banking organizations was extended further in a revised statement Friday by the three federal banking regulators. The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance […]
The asset-size thresholds used to define a “small bank” and “intermediate small bank” under federal anti-redlining Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations will rise for 2022 based on changes in the consumer price index. With the […]
Risks to financial stability in the current economy were downplayed by Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. (“Jay”) Powell during a press conference Wednesday, as he asserted that the four components of stability were generally […]
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