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January 23, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Small Business announced its February hearing schedule. January 23, 2024- The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, in coordination with Australia...more
November 1, 2023- The Federal Open Market Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent. November 1, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance...more
October 16, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Cyber Security Council of the United Arab Emirates announced the finalization of a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding on Cybersecurity Cooperation during a...more
September 25, 2023- The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department published a working paper entitled, "Lease Expirations and CRE Property Performance." September 25, 2023- FINRA published an election notice...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 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 15, 2022- The New York State Department of Financial Services released Guidance to banking organizations regulated by the NYDFS that wish to engage in virtual currency-related activities....more
November 1, 2022- Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo delivered remarks at the semi-annual Joint session of the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee andFinancial Services Sector Coordinating...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 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
August 10, 2022- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interpretive rule laying out when digital marketing providers for financial firms must comply with federal consumer financial protection law....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
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an advisory opinion addressing that federal law often could prohibit debt collectors from charging consumers "pay-to-pay" fees when a consumer seeks to make a payment in a...more
Regulatory Developments - CFPB Announces Steps to Improve Checking Account Access - On Feb. 3, the CFPB announced that it was taking three steps to expand checking account access to the approximately 10 million...more