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  • Sep 12
    2018

    Narrow Odds for Narrow Banks – The Fed’s disparate treatment of TNB hurts depositors.

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    “Can a regulator deny key services to a bank merely because it doesn’t like its novel business model? That’s the question in a lawsuit filed in federal court recently by…

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  • Sep 6
    2018

    Federal Reserve is Sued, Accused of Limiting Competition.

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    “A former Federal Reserve official is suing the Fed for blocking his plan to create a new kind of bank, saying it is putting the interests of big Wall Street…

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  • Sep 6
    2018

    Fed Rejects Bank for Being Too Safe.

    Category : Press

    “The basic business of banks is to take deposits and make loans. The deposits have to be “risk-free”: A deposit in a bank account ought to be just “money”; depositors…

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  • Sep 5
    2018

    Fed Nixes Narrow Bank.

    Category : Press

    “A narrow bank would be a great thing. A narrow bank takes deposits, and invests 100% of the money in interest-paying reserves at the Fed. (The Fed, in turn, mostly…

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  • Aug 31
    2018

    TNB Says Federal Reserve Bank of N.Y. Blocking its Business.

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    “TNB USA Inc. sued the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Friday seeking a court order forcing the organization to open a master account that the company says it needs…

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