The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. It performs five general functions to promote the effective operation of the U.S. economy and, more generally, the public interest. The Federal Reserve:
This page includes the principal materials directly relevant to the Federal Reserve and its regulations.
On the left side of the page are the Statutes under which the Federal Reserve has principal rulemaking authority and the Federal Reserve's rules.
The top right of the page, under Developments, provides tools to keep Cabinet members current on regulatory developments at the Federal Reserve: the Cabinet's regulatory news and links to the Cabinet Trackers for Change Management and for Rules in Transition, each of which can be filtered by agency. To see a calendar of events, go to the Calendar Page and select the Banking Regulatory Calendar. We also provide a link to the agency's Twitter feed.
Further down the right side of the page are the regulatory materials published by the Federal Reserve and its staff, as well as Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
To see similar materials for the other principal banking regulators, see the topic pages for each of the CFPB, the FDIC, the OCC, the NCUA, and New York State and the NYDFS. See also the Banking Materials topic page, which is a composite of the regulatory materials for all of the listed agencies.
Regulation D: Reserve Requirements
Regulation E: Electronic Funds Transfer
Regulation F: Limitations on Interbank Liabilities
Regulation H: Members of State Banking Institutions in the Federal Reserve
Regulation I: Issue and Cancellation of FRB Capital Stock
Regulation J: Collection of Checks and Funds Transfers through Fedwire
Regulation L: Management Official Interlocks
Regulation M: Consumer Leasing
Regulation O: Loans to Executive Officers, Directors and Principal Shareholders
Regulation R: Exceptions for Banks from the Definitions of Broker in the SEA
Regulation X: Borrowers of Securities Credit
Regulation Z: Loan Originator Compensation and Steering
Regulation BB: Community Reinvestment
Regulation CC: Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks
Regulation DD: Truth in Savings