A directive calling for oversight over the central bank’s regulatory and supervisory responsibilities has set off alarm.

The Fed board, he said, should resist initiatives that impede effective supervision by discouraging examiners to flag issues early, or ones that add to the process unnecessarily, he said.

In what is expected to be his final speech as the Fed's rules chief, Barr maintained that strong rules are needed to guard ...

The Federal Reserve’s top bank cop, Michael Barr,implored regulators to stay vigilant about risks to the financial system as ...

The billionaire gives remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

A new congressional task force focused on the Federal Reserve, set up by the head of a powerful committee who is critical of the U.S. central bank's approach to setting monetary policy, has penciled ...

Michael Barr defended the Federal Reserve’s independence and oversight role Thursday, two days after the White House issued an executive order that could exert greater control over the central bank’s ...

White House seeks sway over FCC, FEC, FTC and some Fed operations. Politics professor Sarah Binder says it "grabs power from ...

The governor is appointed by the member country and is usually the minister of finance or the governor of the central bank. All powers of the IMF are vested in the Board of Governors. The Board of ...

President Donald Trump appointed Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission. Ferguson, a Republican, has vowed to ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...