On October 26, 2017, the Office of Financial Research (“OFR”), an arm of the Treasury Department, issued a Report of its Director that challenges the standard set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act for determining which entities are...more
The Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (the “OFR”) delivered a report to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the “FSOC”) discussing ways that activities in the asset management industry might create, amplify, or...more
The Office of Financial Research, or OFR, was created by the Dodd-Frank Act. It recently published a paper with the title “How Likely is Contagion in Financial Networks?” ...more
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established the Office of Financial Research, or OFR, within the Treasury Department to improve the quality of financial data available to policymakers and to...more