The Federal Reserve affects you in more ways than you might think. From interest rates to the employment rate, here are all the ways the Fed affects daily life.

The Fed prioritizes shrinking its balance sheet over rate cuts to fight inflation. See why its disciplined approach supports growth, jobs, and long-term stability.

The Federal Reserve said all major banks passed this year’s stress tests, showing they can withstand a hypothetical severe ...

The Federal Reserve suffered a widespread disruption in multiple payment services Wednesday, including a system that banks and businesses rely on to zip trillions of dollars around the financial ...

The Federal Reserve launched a new instant payment system, FedNow, on July 20. It promises to open the world of instantaneous money transfers, at any hour of any day, to the masses — at least in ...

The Federal Reserve Bank oversees the banking system, so its leaders face questions as they meet in Washington this week. INSKEEP: NPR's Scott Horsley will be listening to them, as he often does ...

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Monday she expects the agency's new real-time payments system FedNow to go live between May and July 2023.

The Federal Reserve's system that allows wire money transfers crashed with intermittent disruptions for about two hours on Wednesday. The outage impacted customers, which include banks, brokers ...

Banks are turning to the Federal Reserve’s loan programs to access funding as turmoil sweeps the financial system in the wake several high-profile bank failures.

One hundred years ago today President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, thus creating the Federal Reserve System, our central bank. It wasn’t called the Bank of the United States, following ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve is set to launch a long-awaited faster payments system by next summer, a step that officials say will modernize an outmoded infrastructure and ensure that near ...