Claire Williams covers banking policy matters on Capitol Hill. She previously wrote about financial and economic policy for Morning Consult and earlier had stints at S&P Global and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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The Senate voted 48 to 47 to confirm Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve Board, just ahead of the central bank's rate setting committee meeting.
September 15 -
The Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 to favorably recommend Stephen Miran's nomination for the Federal Reserve Board to the full Senate.
September 10 -
Stephen Miran will take unpaid leave from and might seek to return to President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers, he said, raising conflict of interest questions in his nomination hearing for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.
September 4 -
West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore, who's put banks on a blacklist for their support of ESG policies, is up for (and very likely to win) one of the state's two seats in the U.S. House. Here's how he got there, and what it'll look like when he tries to bring his anti-ESG policies national.
April 10 -
First Republic Bank was shuttered by regulators early Monday, and all its deposits and most of its assets were acquired by JPMorgan. San Francisco-based First Republic was undone by low-rate mortgages it made to its wealthy customers as well as by the fallout from last month's banking crisis.
May 1 -
President Joe Biden said that deposits at U.S. banks are safe following swift action from his administration's bank regulators.
March 13 -
The Treasury Department issued a "systemic risk exception" allowing it to cover uninsured deposits at SVB and Signature Bank, which New York State closed on Sunday.
March 12 -
Lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee clashed over the stalled nominations of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and four others Wednesday. It was a prelude to the fireworks that could occur Thursday when Powell is scheduled to testify before the Senate Banking Committee.
March 2
