Interpretations as to how compatible Switzerland's announced plans to join the European Sky Shield air defense project are with the country's long-standing tradition of neutrality differ among the experts surveyed by Sputnik

US banks with $100 billion or more in assets will need higher capital buffers to protect them against failure and to be in line with global banking safety rules agreed in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve's Vice-Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said Monday

Supervisors of the most vulnerable banks in the United States have been "insufficiently assertive" and their actions failed to adequately address financial stability risks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday