Conversations

• 6/1/2026

Executive Vice President Carl White and members of the St. Louis Fed’s Supervision team will be hosting in person meetings throughout the Eighth District in 2026 to discuss emerging topics in banking supervision. During these Conversations with the St. Louis Fed meetings, Senior Business Economist Kathleen Navin will provide an Economic Update offering regional and national perspectives. Our Supervision team will provide updates on banking trends, emerging risks and supervisory operating principles.

• 12/15/2025

On Friday, December 12, the St. Louis Fed hosted webinar to discuss “Pennies”. During this Conversations with the St. Louis Fed, Tim Brown, vice president of Cash Services, provided an update on the discontinuation of pennies and how the St. Louis Fed’s cash unit is handling circulation of pennies.

If you have questions, please email conversations@stls.frb.org.

• 6/18/2025

Senior Vice President Carl White and members of the St. Louis Fed’s Supervision team will be hosting in person meetings throughout the Eighth District in 2025 to discuss emerging topics in banking supervision with state member banks. During these Conversations with the St. Louis Fed meetings, Senior Business Economist Kathleen Navin will provide an Economic Update offering regional and national perspectives. Our Supervision team will provide updates on banking trends and emerging risks. 

• 8/22/2024

In 2023 and 2024, Conversations to the St. Louis Fed returned to an in-person format. These events were held across the 8th district by invitation. The Conversations with the St. Louis Fed program is designed as an open forum to address questions from Eighth District state member banks on key supervisory and regulatory topics.

• 7/21/2022

On Thursday, July 21,2022 the latest edition of Conversations with the St. Louis Fed titled “Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Reform- Q&A” was held. During this session we heard from Supervisory Examiner Caleb Bobo (St. Louis Fed), Lead Supervisory Policy Analyst Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini (Board of Governors), and CRA Subject Matter Expert Jessica Farr (Atlanta Fed), as they provide an overview of the Interagency CRA Proposal that was released on May 5, 2022.