Two U.S. Senators called for a shakeup in the oversight of the Federal Reserve following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell promised to find out what the 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:central bank did wrong leading up to their collapse.

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts introduced legislation that would have the president appoint and the Senate confirm the Inspector General of the Fed’s Board of Governors. Currently, the person holding that position is selected by the board. The current Inspector General is Mark Biale𒐪k, who ha🦩s held the post for almost 12 years. 

Scott argued that after the Fed's "failure to properly identify and prevent" the collapse of the two banks, "we can't wait any longer for a big change" at the central bank. Warren said that the "regulatory failures" by the Fed have underscored the need for an independent Inspector General "to hold Fed officials accountable for any lapses in wrongdoing."

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Last week, Powell announced the Fed would be conducting an internal review of its supervision and regulation of Silicon Valley Bank, to be led by Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr. Powell explained today that he “realized right away” that there would be a need for a review. He added that the first question everyone was asking after that weekend was, "How did this happen?"

He added his goal was to find out what went wrong, and "then make an assessment of what are the right policies to put in place so it doesn’t happen again, and then implement those policies." The findings of Barr's investigation are to be released to the public on May 1.