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December 10, 2024 - The United States Department of the Treasury is announcing the disbursement of $20 billion for the benefit of Ukraine, as part of the $50 billion G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loans...more
December 9, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data released the November 2024 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that households’ inflation expectations increased slightly at...more
December 6, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published an order establishing supervisory authority over Google Payment Corp. Google promptly filed a lawsuit challenging such decisions....more
December 4, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled “Innovation Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Finance.”...more
December 3, 2024 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule addressing data brokers that sell Americans' sensitive personal and financial information....more
The Financial Stability Board has published a letter sent to the G20 leaders ahead of their meeting on November 18, 2024, together with the FSB 2024 annual report...more
December 2, 2024 - Ahead of a hearing to examine how technology is shaping the future of finance, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (CA-43)...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: 2024 list of global systemically important banks - Status: Final - The FSB has published a 2024 list of global systemically...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) Germany - BReg: Government draft on the Second Future Financing Act (Regierungsentwurf zum zweiten Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz) Status: Draft - The...more
The European Supervisory Authorities (the European Securities and Markets Authority, European Banking Authority, and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) published joint guidelines on the system for the...more
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The European Banking Authority has finalized two sets of guidelines setting common standards on the governance arrangements and the policies, procedures, and controls that financial institutions should have in place to be...more
November 20, 2024 - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators.” The Committee heard testimony from: The Honorable Michael Barr, Vice Chairman for...more
November 19, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS released final regulations that will expand the reach of the Inflation Reduction Act by helping entities that co-own clean energy projects access clean...more
November 15, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published the November 2024 Supervision and Regulation Report. November 15, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board released the G.17 industrial production and capacity utilization...more
November 14, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury delivered its semiannual Report to Congress on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States....more
November 13, 2024 - Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Eric Van Nostrand gave remarks on U.S. business investment in the post-COVID expansion. November 13, 2024 - The Office of Financial Research published a brief...more
November 12, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board published the results of the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices for October 2024. November 12, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published a working...more
The EU is continuing to shape the regulatory landscape in the crypto market After the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) entered into force in June 2024, a significant step took place last July with the publication of...more
The European Banking Authority has launched, in cooperation with the European Securities and Markets Authority and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, a survey addressed to entities within the scope of...more
November 7, 2024 - The Federal Open Markets Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/2 to 4-3/4 percent. November 7, 2024- Securities and Exchange...more
October 30, 2024 - Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Josh Frost issued the Quarterly Refunding Statement announcing that the U.S. Department of the Treasury is offering $125 billion of Treasury securities to refund...more
The European Banking Authority launched a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the treatment of structural foreign exchange positions under Article 104c of the EU Capital Requirements Regulation and on...more
October 28, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced its current estimates of privately-held net marketable borrowing for the October–December 2024 and January–March 2025 quarters....more
October 23, 2024 The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded 48 organizations $246.4 million for the development of affordable housing and community facilities serving...more