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.
The former Treasury official and University of Michigan administrator’s confirmation gives the Federal Reserve Board a full complement of seven governors for the first time in nearly a decade.
The Federal Reserve has aggressively ratcheted up interest rates to tame inflation. But that swift turnaround after more than a decade of accommodative monetary policy could create new risks to the financial system.
In a speech at the Bank of England, the vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board gave her strongest endorsement to date for the benefits of a central bank digital currency.
Michael Barr, awaiting confirmation as the Federal Reserve’s top regulator, wants to holistically rethink the central bank’s capital requirements. Karen Petrou, managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics, has some ideas on how to do that.
The Federal Reserve System is facing increasing demands from the Senate to revamp the process for granting master accounts, disclose more information to the public and pick more diverse leaders. That pressure makes executive searches at the Kansas City and Chicago Fed banks more complicated.
The next generation of Senate Banking Committee Republicans has signed on to the latest salvo by Patrick Toomey — who will soon leave Congress — against the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. That means the master accounts issue will live on.
This year’s stress-test results show large banks have more than enough capital to deal with a major economic crisis, but their capital requirements will likely go up anyway. That has some observers and industry officials concerned credit will tighten even as the economy teeters on the edge of recession.
Despite a more rigorous hypothetical stress scenario than last year, each of the 33 banks examined retained far more than their minimum capital requirements in this year’s stress-test results.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Board of Governors has a limited role in determining which firms are granted master accounts, an emerging point of contention between Congress and the central bank.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Esther George is refusing to provide the Republican senator answers about certain internal deliberations at the regional Fed bank over the revocation of the master account granted to Reserve Trust. The fight could set up a bigger showdown over how the central bank grants such accounts.