Hoenig and Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, have been leading the charge on this issue within the Federal Reserve System.

In the 1935 Act, the district heads had their titles changed to President (e.g., President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ), as part of a major shift of power to Washington.

The United States Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England are particularly exposed.

More monetary and credit easing is also required for the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, and the Swiss National Bank.

SINGAPORE In August, Raghuram Rajan was appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

BEIJING Not long after the United States Federal Reserve Board announced its second round of quantitative easing (known as QE2), the People s Bank of China (PBC), China s central bank, announced two increases of 0.5 percentage points in the required reserve ratio (RRR) of bank deposits.

It has been 20 years since Alan Greenspan became chairman of America s Federal Reserve Bank.

Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, President, World Bank

Tom Hoenig, a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and now a top official at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, advocates separating big banks commercial and securities trading activities.

In fact, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan are doing just that under the name of quantitative easing.

This would reestablish monetary sovereignty and create a normal central bank (like the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England) at the European level.

The West s major central banks the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, and the United States Federal Reserve should take this to heart.

Compared to private investors, then, central bank reserve managers are more likely to act as stabilizing speculators.

The Reserve Bank of South Africa implements monetary policy after consultation with the other countries central banks.

Not every country s central bank not even every friendly country s central bank has been invited to join the swap lines club. Membership is restricted to the United States Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Swiss National Bank, and the Bank of Canada.

It is, in fact, a capsule depiction of the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.

As a result, the People s Bank of China has raised interest rates substantially and increased banks reserve requirements.

With fear of bank runs and defaults receding, banks reserve ratios became ever smaller, thus increasing their lending facilities.

The Federal Reserve and the People s Bank of China are on the same path, but for very different reasons.

As Bill Dudley, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, put it recently, using the delicate language of central bankers, The impediments to an orderly cross border resolution still need to be fully identified and dismantled.

President Barack Obama s administration and the US Federal Reserve gave priority to healing the private sector.

Second, in an effort to curtail excess bank lending, reserve ratios were increased nine times in the past 11 months.

The US Federal Reserve increased its stock of base money in 2008 by 97 , the European Central Bank by 37 .

Chris Stals, former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, an APRM member responsible for country reviews, welcomed the statement.

Yet, revealingly, the Bank of Korea, the central bank hit hardest, negotiated a 30 billion foreign currency swap with the United States Federal Reserve, not with its ASEAN 3 partners.

The president of the World Bank is, traditionally, an American.

The US Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and other public financial regulatory entities are being pushed toward a further expansion of their roles.

The author became Governor of the Reserve Bank of India on September 4. This commentary was written before he took office.

With dollar financing by the Federal Reserve available to large institutions, the Fed became the equivalent of a world central bank.

The Banking Act of 1935, as amended in 1942, then shifted power from the Reserve Banks to the Board in Washington, DC, and confirmed the special role of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

CAMBRIDGE The United States Federal Reserve Board recently adopted a policy under which bank supervisors, the guardians of the financial system s safety and soundness, would review the compensation structures of bank executives.

Moreover, unlimited quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan, the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank also increases the risk of volatile capital flows and asset bubbles in Asian emerging economies.

But, more broadly, as Dennis Lockhart, President of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, said last week at a public conference organized by his institution, we should not seek to operate a system based on the principle of private gains and public losses.

The South African Reserve Bank has created a special platform within its national payment system for micro finance institutions and non banks.

Or the US Federal Reserve, the Peoples Bank of China (PBC), or both or even some other body could support the market.

Every week more liquidity is injected into the global banking system by the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.

He argued that a timid BOJ should learn from its more aggressive counterparts, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.

When business investment committees become more cautious, we expect to see the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and others lower interest rates to make the numbers more attractive.

Low risk central government bonds and central bank reserve requirements most of which are backed by substantial foreign exchange reserves account for 31 trillion of the 95 trillion in total commercial bank assets.

The city is home to both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, one of 13 United States courts of appeals, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, one of 12 Federal Reserve Banks.

The European Central Bank, tightly focused on price stability, has been raising interest rates, and the US Federal Reserve may soon follow suit.

If anything, they claim, his fiscal stimulus, the bank bailouts, and US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke s aggressive monetary policy made matters worse.

The Reserve Primary Fund brought down by its purchases of IOU s from Lehman was a money market mutual fund, not a commercial bank.

The People's Bank of China has more financial assets than any single public institution, and is second only to the Federal Reserve System of the United States in terms of overall central bank assets.

FLORENCE Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker provided the central inspiration for President Barack Obama s proposal for overhauling banking.