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Newsbytes Fed’s Barr to speak at ABA Annual Convention

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Michael Barr will share his outlook for bank regulation and discuss other key policy issues with ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols during the ABA Annual Convention, Oct. 8-10 in Nashville.

Newsbytes Democratic senators urge Fed to review bank merger policy

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and three Democratic committee members today the Federal Reserve to review and reconsider its approach to large bank mergers, including the agency’s framework for evaluating a merger’s impact on financial stability.

Economy Fed’s Harker suggests holding rates at current level

The economy may have reached the point where the Federal Open Markets Committee can hold off further increases in the federal funds rate and let the monetary policy actions it has already taken run their course, said Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

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