More than 100 leaders in financial markets, the regulatory arena and academia attended the Richmond Fed’s seventh annual Credit Markets Symposium. View videos and more from the event.

Serving our country can be a challenge under even the best of circumstances. The Richmond Fed’s Alvin Peyton knows that based on experience, and he was recently recognized for helping a team member balance work and military service.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is producing a new publication called 5E Navigator. The publication’s mission is to provide reliable information in an imaginative format to help people make informed decisions about their personal finances. Each issue of 5E Navigator takes the reader on a journey exploring a personal finance topic. The first issue features credit reports.

April is National Financial Literacy Month! The Richmond Fed will be engaged in a number of financial education activities across the Fifth Federal Reserve District during April. These activities, along with recently debuted resources, represent a snapshot of our ongoing financial education efforts throughout the year. These efforts focus on providing reliable economics-based information and tools to help people make informed decisions about their personal finances, especially key financial decisions that can have large and long-lasting impacts on their well-being.

As part of the commemoration of its centennial, the Federal Reserve has launched two new social media channels to help the public better understand the Fed and its history.

Among them is an interactive data and mapping resource which allows users to spatially display data and create customized maps of communities, counties and states using PolicyMap’s web based mapping tool. This resource replaces our Community Data and Mapping Resource Centers.  We have also introduced new resources for small businesses.

A professional organization formed with the support of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has won a national award for its work addressing money laundering and other financial crimes.

Senior Vice President David E. Beck speaks to the Commonwealth Association for Financial Professionals.

The Richmond Fed’s Economic Education team took a busload of teachers to "Conversation with the Chairman: A Teacher Town Hall Meeting" at the Federal Reserve Board.

The Richmond Fed’s Community Development and Economic Education teams immersed themselves in a monthlong effort to promote financial education during Financial Literacy Month.

Regional economic forums, like the visit to the Triad, enhance the Richmond Fed's connection to communities throughout the Fifth District by fostering mutually beneficial relationships and giving Bank leaders the opportunity to tell people about who we are and what we do.