September 10, 2024 - Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S Barr delivered a speech at the Brookings Institution on re-proposal of regulations to implement the Basel III Endgame....more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
A 1% reduction in the Bank Rate would reduce the UK government's annual interest charges on the national debt, but the exact amount of the reduction depends on the proportion of the debt that is sensitive to changes in...more
August 28, 2024- Following its stress test earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Board announced final individual capital requirements for all large banks, effective on October 1....more
August 27, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board released the minutes from its recent meetings to review and determine the discount rates provided to depository institutions through the discount window....more
August 23, 2024- Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell gave a speech entitled, “Review and Outlook,” at “Reassessing the Effectiveness and Transmission of Monetary Policy,” an economic symposium sponsored by the...more
August 21, 2024- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that was held on July 30–31, 2024. August 21, 2024- The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published a...more
On 30 July 2024, the Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper setting out its approach to innovations in money and payments (Discussion Paper). In the Discussion Paper, the BoE sets out its current view on...more
August 12, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent a comment letter to the U.S. Department of the Treasury in response to the Treasury’s Request for Information on Uses, Opportunities, and Risks of Artificial...more
August 9, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading...more
The Bank of England has published the findings from its second assessment of the eight major U.K. banks under the Resolvability Assessment Framework. The assessment finds that the major U.K. banks have continued to make...more
August 7, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Trade Commission announced actions to address unfair and deceptive consumer acts and practices in the...more
August 5, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board issued final joint guidance to help certain large banks further develop their resolution plans. August 6, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic...more
Central bank money could interact with programmable platforms through the use of so-called "wholesale central bank digital currency" (wCBDC) technologies. To inform this work, the BoE proposes a program of experiments to test...more
August 2, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board requested comment on a proposed rule that would establish data standards for certain information collections submitted to financial regulatory agencies....more
August 1, 2024- The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world's first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence, which was designed to ensure that AI developed and used in the EU is trustworthy,...more
On 30 July 2024, the Bank of England published a discussion paper on its approach to innovation in money and payments (the Discussion Paper). A recurring theme is the Bank of England’s focus on the potential use of...more
July 30, 2024 - The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) approved a notice of proposed rulemaking, which if implemented, will effectively roll back significant portions of 2020’s...more
July 26, 2024- A new Eurobarometer survey published today shows that Europeans identify respect for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law (38%) and economic, industrial, and trading power (34%) as the main strengths...more
July 25, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a statement reminding banks of potential risks associated with third-party arrangements...more
The pound ticked lower on Thursday as the UK’s latest jobs report revived the potential of a Bank of England (BoE) interest rate cut next month. Sterling remains on the back foot so far this morning, with GBP/EUR subdued...more
July 18, 2024- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed an interpretive rule explaining that many paycheck advance products, sometimes marketed as “earned wage” products, could be consumer loans subject to the...more
Firms have just over six months until the transition period for implementing the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Bank of England rules and guidance on operational resilience...more
The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing on the following nominations: The Honorable Christy Goldsmith Romero, of Virginia, to be Chairperson and Member of the Board of...more
July 10, 2024 - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, “The Federal Reserve’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report.” The Committee heard testimony from The Honorable Jerome H. Powell,...more