Boston Fed Will Not Release Documents on Its Former President’s Trades

Boston Fed Will Not Release Documents on Its Former President’s Trades
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and then-Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren attend a presentation by the East Hartford CONNects, a Working Cities Challenge initiative, and community residents project at Silver Lane Elementary School in East Hartford, Conn., on Nov. 25, 2019. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—The Boston Federal Reserve will not release documents that could show whether its former president vetted a series of personal investments last year with its ethics officer, a spokesman for the regional Fed bank said, a key point in an ongoing ethics controversy at the U.S. central bank.

Eric Rosengren, along with Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan, stepped down after details of their trading activities in 2020 were reported in the media last month, raising questions about whether Fed rules on policymakers’ financial investments are strict enough given their market-sensitive roles.