• Go to your current bank's Website. Then, pick another financial institution that is not a bank and go to its Website. Compare and contrast the services offered by your bank and the other financial institution. Be prepared to discuss.
• Each of the Federal Reserve Banks has its own Website and tries to specialize in specific types of information. Go to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Website, located at https://www.frbsf.org, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis's Website, located at https://www.minneapolisfed.org. For each Website, identify the types of consumer and economic information they provide. Be prepared to discuss.
• U.S. banks are highly regulated by the Federal Government. Take a position on whether you believe that federal regulation helps or hurts U.S. banks. Provide support for your position.
• Identify the two institutions you researched. Discuss how they are similar and how they differ. Then, summarize what this says about financial institutions today.