FIN 4324 / Commercial Bank Management

From Cornell University, Legal Information Institute.

The Fed Explained: What the Central Bank Does details the structure, responsibilities, and work of the U.S. central banking system.

From the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Federal Register is the Daily Journal of the U.S. Government.

From the Commodities Futures Trade Commission, regular news updates.

Membership organization that represents institutions of all assets and charter types.

Membership organization that represents the interests of the community banking industry.

Interactive timeline on how banking law developed in the United States.

Born from a series of financial crises in the 20th century, the Federal Reserve, or Fed, controls monetary policy in the United States to ensure economic growth through maximum employment and fair pricing.

When COVID struck, the Federal Reserve stepped in to try to avert economic crisis. As the country’s central bank continues to pump billions of dollars into the financial system daily, who is benefitting and at what cost?

The role of the Federal Reserve’s “easy money” policies in the current economic uncertainty. From the Great Recession to the rise in inflation, the ongoing fragility of the financial system and the widening gap between Wall St. and Main St.

Scott Pelley has an exclusive look as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation takes control of a failed bank.

In this whimsical video, Federal Reserve Chairman Rob Rafaelson awakes with amnesia only moments before a big press conference, his children, maid and intern must explain the Fed to him using the only thing handy: the children’s toys.

Learn about the 2008 financial crisis and the government's response. it started with home mortgages, and the use of mortgages as an investment instrument. For years, it seemed like the housing market would go up and up. Like a bubble...

The Federal Reserve was originally created in 1913 as an emergency lender to banks— a sort of bank of last resort. The Banking Act of 1935 and the Fed Accord of 1951 broadened the powers of the Fed. The housing bubble and Great Recession provided new and substantial challenges.

Christine Romans looks back on what it was like covering the financial crisis that ushered in the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Marriner Eccles, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was integral to the economic policies of the 1930s and ‘40s; he was a staunch advocate for the independence of the nation’s central bank, and a voice of the New Deal.

From September 16, 2015 -- The Federal Reserve had kept interest rates at historic, near zero levels for nearly seven years. If Federal Reserve officials begin raising rates this week, what will that mean for you? Bloomberg's Ben Steverman looks at four things you may want to consider.

Covers the history of U.S. money and monetary policy, and episodes in U.S. history when the country was faced with problems of too much or too little money. From British-caused coin shortages to the Revolutionary War, to the years of the two Banks of the United States, the Civil War, and the Greenback and Populist eras, the gold standard, and the Federal Reserve.

How did the U.S. government pull itself out of the financial crisis of 2008? By investing in itself.