WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
September 9, 2024- Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Accountant Paul Munter made a statement at the 2024 AICPA & CIMA Conference on Banks & Savings Institutions....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 13, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog post entitled, “When Are Central Bank Reserves Ample?” August 13, 2024 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...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
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 2, 2024- The EU–U.S. Joint Financial Regulatory Forum took place on June 25-26, 2024, with participants exchanging views on topics of mutual interest as part of their regular financial regulatory dialogue. The...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
April 29, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released research showing that 15 million Americans still have medical bills on their credit reports despite changes by Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion....more
April 11, 2024- U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) introduced the bipartisan Ransomware and Financial Stability Act....more
March 25, 2024- The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned thirteen entities and two individuals for operating in the financial services and technology sectors of the Russian...more
March 20, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled, "SEC Overreach: Examining the Need for Reform." March 20, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on...more
March 13, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion held a hearing entitled, "Bureaucratic Overreach or Consumer Protection? Examining the...more
January 29, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a finding and notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that identifies an Iraqi bank that serves as a conduit for terrorist financing, as a foreign financial...more
January 16, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled, "A Field Guide to Monetary Policy Implementation Issues in a New World with CBDC, Stablecoin, and Narrow Banks."...more
January 11, 2024- U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry (NC-10) and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (CA-43) announced the formation of the Committee's bipartisan Working Group on Artificial...more
January 8, 2024- Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen gave remarks at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. January 8, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board released the G.19 consumer credit data for November 2023....more
December 21, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) took another major step in support of U.S. Government efforts to crack down on illicit finance and enhance corporate...more
December 15, 2023- U.S. Senate Committee on Baking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chair Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), along with Senators John Kennedy (R-LA), Bob Casey (D-PA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Mike Braun (R-IN), and...more
December 12, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled, "Examining the Agenda of Regulators, SROs, and Standards-Setters for Accounting, Auditing."...more
December 4, 2023- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen addressed the Climate Investment Funds Panel, "Scaling Up Just Energy Transitions to Enable Industry Decarbonization." She highlighted that the Treasury has...more
November 27, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board announced technical details related to reserve requirements for depository institutions, which will remain zero for 2024. November 27, 2023- The Federal Reserve Bank of...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
November 16, 2023- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Board of Directors approved a final rule to implement a special assessment to recover the loss to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) associated with protecting...more
November 9, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board published the Supervision and Regulation Report for November 2023. November 9, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled "LCR Premium in the Federal...more
November 8, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Small Business held a hearing entitled, "Burdensome Regulations: Examining the Effects of Department of Energy Regulations on America's Job Creators."...more