FDIC offers helping hand to community banks

WASHINGTON – For a community bank, digesting more than 900 pages of complex new capital adequacy rules is a cumbersome task. And most of those banks don’t think the rules are needed for banks their size. To help them prepare, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...

Interactive Quiz: Step into Bernanke’s shoes

Ben Bernanke will be meeting with the Federal Open Market Committee next week to review and set the direction for U.S. monetary policy. As the chairman of the Fed, Bernanke has considerable influence over this 12-member committee, which effectively dictates the cost...