WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
September 19, 2024- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Open Market Trading Desk issued a statement announcing it intends to conduct a small value term repo operation with Primary Dealers....more
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
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 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 8, 2024 - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has updated its Beneficial Ownership Information Frequently Asked Questions to include responses to questions about entities that have ceased to exist....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
June 21, 2024 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Federal Reserve Board announced that following their joint review of the July 2023 resolution plan submissions of the eight largest and most complex banks, they...more
June 13, 2024- President Joe Biden nominated current Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero to be Chair and Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. June 13, 2024 - ...more
June 6, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a request for information on the Uses, Opportunities, and Risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Financial Services Sector....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 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 8, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board announced a final rule that updates risk management requirements systemically important financial market utilities supervised by the Board....more
March 6, 2024- Chairman Patrick McHenry and Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee Chairman Andy Barr sent a letter on behalf of all Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee to Fed Chair...more
Congress continues to plug along on crypto policy. The Senate’s attention – on a bipartisan basis – has been focused on extending Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory authority to the digital assets space. This continues to...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
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 7, 2023- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Banking Committee Republicans are calling on Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin...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 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
October 12, 2023- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Justice Department issued a joint statement that reminds financial institutions that all credit applicants are protected from discrimination on the basis of...more
October 10, 2023- Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller gave a speech entitled, "Monetary Policy Analysis and the Development of Federal Reserve Policymaking," that was presented at "The Legacy of Bennett...more
September 29, 2023- The U.S Department of the Treasury released a report prepared in consultation with members of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, entitled The Impact of Climate Change on American Household...more