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The Boston Fed is welcoming 11 new members to its external advisory groups: the New England Advisory Council, the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council, and the New England Community Development Advisory Council: bit.ly/44Tw94m

Federal Reserve issues #FOMC statement: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pre…

Large bank lending to private equity and credit funds is rising fast. A new note from the Boston Fed says it’s up from about $10B in 2013 to about $300B in 2023. What are the implications? Researchers investigate: bit.ly/3GLLDxu

Did you know: The Boston Fed has a range of interactive tools, periodic updates, and public presentations that share data on current economic conditions in New England. Check out our resources: bit.ly/43mn55n

Synthetic identity fraud is a fast-growing and costly type of payments fraud, and it’s getting harder to detect. Boston Fed payments fraud expert Mike Timoney talks about how Gen AI boosts fraud on Six Hundred Atlantic: bit.ly/3R6c9DD

The U.S. private credit market grew from $46 billion (inflation-adjusted) in 2000 to roughly $1 trillion in 2023. Check out a new Boston Fed brief to learn about the role U.S. banks have played in this growth: bit.ly/3FmA7rR

How are New England residents coping with economic uncertainty, and what are the impacts of inflation on local labor markets? Boston Fed leaders joined community members from across the region to explore these questions at the latest Fed Listens event: bit.ly/4jgMYcY

Stablecoins are on the rise, and so is interest in tokenization. How might these changes impact the stability of the broader financial system? The Boston and New York Feds explored this question at a recent conference. Read more: bit.ly/43zvl2n

The Beige Book provides unique insight into the economy by giving the perspectives of regional business leaders and experts. Learn more about why the Beige Book matters to the economy in the latest episode of Six Hundred Atlantic. Listen here: bit.ly/3HooVvt

New England saw a large drop in overall inflation from February 2025, but the rate remained higher than the US inflation rate in April 2025. Read more in the latest New England Economic Conditions memo by Bo Zhao: bit.ly/4mUe2SE

The miles and minutes between patients and doctors in rural New England have long been increasing. Hospitals are also finding it harder to attract workers. We look at this crisis in the latest Boston Fed in Focus feature: bit.ly/45T9sOe

Many of New England’s rural residents are living in “health care deserts,” or areas where access to critical health care services is scarce and distant. What will happen as more hospitals face financial challenges and rising costs? Read more: bit.ly/45T9sOe

Federal Reserve issues #FOMC statement: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pre…

Banks have played an important role in the growth of private credit in recent years. In a recent brief, Boston Fed experts Jose L. Fillat, Mattia Landoni, John D. Levin, and J. Christina Wang explore these links, and how it relates to that growth: bit.ly/3FmA7rR

Check out Season 7 of the Boston Fed’s Six Hundred Atlantic podcast. Episode 1 is looking at financial technology’s impact on financial services. Is it making them more accessible? Or riskier? Listen here: bit.ly/3HXhaND

A setup using a small set of macro variables can produce forecasts about as accurate as private-sector and Fed Reserve Board forecasts. Read the new paper by Boston Fed’s Giovanni Olivei + Daniel Cooper & BU Economics PhD student Hannah Rhodenhiser: bit.ly/3ZZmFBn

Can decentralized finance – known as DeFi – make financial services more democratic and easier to afford? Or is that false hope? The Boston Fed’s podcast asks if DeFi can live up to the hype: bit.ly/4lBzev2

Older Americans tend to live in larger homes, and they aren’t moving out of them at the rate that they used to. A new brief by Boston Fed analyst Sam Shampine looks at the implications of these trends for the country’s housing inventory. Read more: bit.ly/4lLQMF0