It processes payments, such as Social Security checks.
The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is part of the Federal government. It is an agency of the Treasury Department, which is part of the Executive Branch of the US Federal government.
For example, the Fed acts as the Treasury's fiscal agent by putting paper money and coins into circulation, handling Treasury securities, and maintaining a checking account for the Treasury's receipts and payments.
The primary functions of a treasury department at a bank involve asset/liability management. A substantial amount of time is invested by the department in forecasting net interest income (NII) and measuring the bank's interest rate risk (IRR) or sensitivity to changes in prevailing interest rates. The statistics generated by the department are typically fed to the bank's Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO), the group which is responsible for establishing guidelines for risk taking and balance sheet funding. The treasury department generally performs other related functions, such as managing the bank's reserve and risk capital requirements, funding the bank's balance sheet through a number of creative strategies (this is typically done in conjunction with the bank's corporate investments unit), and managing the institution's insurance requirements - property and casualty, directors and officers, and BOLL (Bank Owned Life Insurance).
The Fed sells $5 billion worth of Treasury bonds on the open market.
Into the United States Treasury.
The Chairman of the Fed and the Secretary of Treasury
If they issue treasury bonds (in the case of the US Fed).
In 2004 the Fed made $7.55 trillion of purchases and $7.51 trillion of sales of Treasury securities (mostly short-term Treasury bills). As of June 2005, the Fed held $721.92 billion of U.S. Treasury securities
When the Fed buys Treasury bonds, it increases the amount of deposits in people's bank accounts.The purchase of bonds increases the amount of deposits in people's bank accounts, which enables banks to loan more money
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issue new treasury securities