Publications
The Fed Explained: What the Central Bank Does
August 2021
The Fed Explained (formerly The Federal Reserve System Purposes & Functions) details the structure, responsibilities, and work of the U.S. central banking system.
Annual Report
July 2021
This report covers the calendar-year operations and activities carried out by the Board in its five key functional areas.
Monetary Policy Report
July 2021
This semiannual report, discussing "the conduct of monetary policy and economic developments and prospects for the future," is submitted to Senate and House committees, along with testimony from the Reserve Board Chair.
Most Requested Publications
Publications A-Z
Fed Financial Reports
Annual Report to the Congress on the Presidential $1 Coin Program
- A User's Guide for the Bank Holding Company Performance Report
Analyzing Racial and Ethnic Data in the Survey of Young Workers
- Annual Report
- Annual Report Budget Review
- Annual Report on Promoting Minority Depository Institutions
- Bank Holding Company Supervision Manual
Bank Secrecy Act Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual
- Beige Book
- Browsing to Borrow: "Mom & Pop" Small Business Perspectives on Online Lenders
Calibrating the Single-Counterparty Credit Limit between Systemically Important Financial Institutions
- Changes in U.S. Payments Fraud from 2012 to 2016
- Commercial Bank Examination Manual
- Community Bank Access to Innovation through Partnerships
- Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) Publications
- Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) Q&As
- Conducting Due Diligence on Financial Technology Firms: A Guide for Community Banks
- Consumer & Community Context
- Consumer Compliance Handbook
- Consumer Compliance Handbook December 2016 Update
- Consumer Compliance Supervision Bulletin
- Consumer Information
Consumers and Mobile Financial Services
Data Releases
- Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan
- Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test Publications
- Economic Research and Data
- Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households (SHED)
- Efforts of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System with respect to Global Insurance Regulatory or Supervisory Forums
- Examination Manual for U.S. Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banking Organizations
- Feature Publications
- Fed Listens: Perspectives from the Public
- Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Banks Combined Quarterly Financial Reports (Unaudited)
- Federal Reserve Bulletin
Regulatory Service
- Federal Reserve Regulatory Service (FRRS)
- Federal Reserve Supervision and Regulation Report
- FEDS Notes
FFIEC Information Technology (IT) Examination Handbook
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
- Financial Stability Report
- FR Y-14 Information Collection Q&As
- Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
- Government-Administered, General-Use Prepaid Cards
- Guide to the Flow of Funds Accounts
How to File a Consumer Complaint about a Bank
- How to Order Board Publications
Incentive Compensation Practices: A Report on the Horizontal Review of Practices at Large Banking Organizations
- Independent Foreclosure Review
International Finance Discussion Papers
- International Journal of Central Banking
- Living Wills (Resolution Plans) Q&As, Foreign Banking Organizations
- Monetary Policy Report
- Monthly Report on Credit and Liquidity Programs and the Balance Sheet
- No FEAR Act
- Other Reports
- Perspectives from Main Street: Bank Branch Access in Rural Communities
- Perspectives from Main Street: Stakeholder Feedback on Modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act
- Presidential $1 Coin Program
Putting Data to Work: Data-Driven Approaches to Strengthening Neighborhoods
Quarterly Federal Reserve Banks Combined Financial Reports (Unaudited)
- Quarterly Report on Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Developments
- Regulations
- Report on Efforts to Increase Transparency at Meetings of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors
- Report to the Congress on Implementation of Enhanced Prudential Standards
- Report to the Congress on Regarding Differences in Accounting and Capital Standards Among the Federal Banking Agencies
- Report to the Congress on the Availability of Credit to Small Businesses
- Report to the Congress on the Effect of Capital Rules on Mortgage Servicing Assets
- Report to the Congress on the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion
- Report to the Congress on the Profitability of Credit Card Operations of Depository Institutions
- Report to the Congress on the Use of the ACH System and Other Payment Mechanisms for Remittance Transfers to Foreign Countries
- Reports to Congress Pursuant to Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act in response to COVID-19
Roles and Responsibilities of Federal Reserve Directors
- Semiannual Reports on Banking Applications Activity
Staff Studies
Statistical Digest | Order Form (PDF)
Structure of the Federal Reserve System
- Supervision Manuals
- The Fed Explained
- Trading and Capital-Markets Activities Manual
- Uncertain Terms: What Small Business Borrowers Find When Browsing Online Lender Websites