Weekly Brief: BoA Sued; SCOTUS Shortlists; Fund Fights Argentina
July 15, 2024 - The Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors submitted a joint comment letter stating that the Federal Housing Finance Agency should not make any...more
June 24, 2024 - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen gave remarks on housing policy and announcing new efforts by the Treasury Department using its existing authorities to increase the supply of housing....more
June 13, 2024- President Joe Biden nominated current Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero to be Chair and Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. June 13, 2024 - ...more
March 6, 2024- Chairman Patrick McHenry and Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee Chairman Andy Barr sent a letter on behalf of all Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee to Fed Chair...more
February 20, 2024- The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a small entity compliance guide today that provides an overview of the requirements regarding access to beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more
December 7, 2023- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Banking Committee Republicans are calling on Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin...more
November 21, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury, through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI), has settled with Binance...more
October 10, 2023- Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller gave a speech entitled, "Monetary Policy Analysis and the Development of Federal Reserve Policymaking," that was presented at "The Legacy of Bennett...more
September 12, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission."...more
July 6, 2023- The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) published a working paper entitled, "Aggregate Implications of Deviations from Modigliani-Miller: A Sufficient Statistics Approach."...more
June 21, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing on the following nominations: •The Honorable Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North Carolina, to be Vice Chairman of the...more
May 22, 2023- The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) issued its Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2022 report, which examines the financial lives of U.S. adults and their families....more
February 6, 2023- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog post entitled, "Understanding the "Inconvenience" of U.S. Treasury Bonds."...more
January 30, 2023- The U.S. House of Representatives passed several pieces of bipartisan financial services legislation. Among the bipartisan bills passed are initiatives to combat the financial exploitation of seniors and...more
January 13, 2023- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen sent a letter to all members of Congressional leadership regarding the debt limit. January 13, 2023- The UK-U.S. Financial Regulatory Working Group issued a...more
December 22, 2022- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today issued a revised interagency statement to extend the...more
December 21, 2022- U.S. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey (R-PA) introduced legislation that would establish the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins and guide Congress towards a path...more
November 22, 2022- The Federal Reserve Board published a paper entitled, "Choices and Implications when Measuring the Local Supply of Prescription Opioids."...more
October 21, 2022 U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen and White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda D. Young today released the final budget results for fiscal year 2022....more
October 17, 2022- U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control Director Andrea Gacki and HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation Director Giles Thomson published a joint article...more
October 6, 2022- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen announced that Treasury has signed a loan agreement for the Clean Technology Fund—a multilateral trust fund which helps to scale up low carbon technologies in...more
October 3, 2022- The Financial Stability Oversight Council held a meeting on October 3, 2022 where it unanimously approved its Report on Digital Asset Financial Stability Risks and Regulation....more
July 21, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Priced Out: The State of Housing in America."...more
Federal Agencies- Federal Reserve Bank of New York- Article: Contributing to a Fair and Transparent FX Market- June 21, 2022- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published an article entitled, "Contributing to a Fair...more
FHFA Updates Progress on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Credit Risk Transfer Programs - On July 26, 2017, the Federal Housing Finance Agency released an update on the credit risk transfer programs of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae...more