Kyle Campbell covers the Federal Reserve and housing policy for American Banker. Previously, he wrote about institutional investment in real estate for PERE. He has also held staff positions at Real Estate Weekly, the New York Daily News and the Southampton Press.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said at the Federal Open Market Committee press conference Wednesday that a slower pace of reduction could help the central bank avoid shrinking its holdings further without disrupting the banking system.
Policy experts say the mix of proposals put forth by the White House could ease the nation's housing shortage, but success will be neither quick nor assured.
The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau summarized his findings from a yearlong probe into the Appraisal Foundation. He says the "lawmaking body" is not accountable to the public or market forces.
The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency both cited the nation's largest bank for having "inadequate" policies around firm and client trading activities.
Federal Reserve officials have hammered home the importance of bank readiness to borrow from the discount window. Getting banks to actually do so may require the Fed to make structural improvements to the system.
The rule updates requirements for how systemically important clearing networks prepare for and respond to operational risks.
The Senate Banking Committee for the second time has advanced Ron Borzekowski's nomination to lead the Office of Financial Research in the Treasury Department. The nomination languished amid partisan opposition last year.
During a contentious exchange on his second day of congressional testimony this week, the Federal Reserve chair drew a line between the central bank's response to last year's bank failures and its current capital proposal.
In congressional testimony, the Federal Reserve chair said the Board of Governors is processing the comments on its capital reform proposal. Putting forth an entirely new proposal is "very plausible."
The chair of the House Financial Services Committee called the last resort lending facility "a generation behind" broader capital markets. He said modernization should be part of the Federal Reserve's response to last year's bank failures.