WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
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 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
July 9, 2024 The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.” The Committee heard testimony from The Honorable Jerome H....more
July 5, 2024 - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President and CEO John C. Williams gave a speech entitled, “Managing the Known Unknowns,” at the Suresh Tendulkar Memorial Lecture, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, India....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
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 18, 2024- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "National Security Challenges: Outpacing China in Emerging Technology."...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 9, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board released the minutes from the recent meetings that occurred on November 13 through December 13, 2023 to review and determine the discount rates provided to depository institutions...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
September 20, 2023- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg addressed The Exchequer Club in Washington, DC on the financial stability risks of nonbank financial institutions....more
September 14, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled, "Implementing Basel III: What's the Fed's Endgame?"...more
July 7, 2023- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Department of Treasury launched an inquiry into high-cost specialty financial products, such as medical...more
June 21, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing on the following nominations: •The Honorable Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North Carolina, to be Vice Chairman of the...more
June 16, 2023- The Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee sent a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the...more
June 1, 2023- The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) issued a joint consent order to facilitate the implementation...more
January 30, 2023- The U.S. House of Representatives passed several pieces of bipartisan financial services legislation. Among the bipartisan bills passed are initiatives to combat the financial exploitation of seniors and...more
January 12, 2023- Subcommittees of the House Financial Services Committee, as well as their respective Chairs and jurisdiction for the 118th Congress, were announced. January 11, 2023- Republican Committee members...more
December 13, 2022- State bank supervisors have appointed New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris to serve as the state banking supervisor's representative on the Financial Stability...more
December 6, 2022- Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, along with Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), introduced the Close the Shadow Banking...more
November 3, 2022- The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued three additional notices requesting public input on key climate and clean energy tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act....more
October 18, 2022- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation adopted a final rule to increase initial base deposit insurance assessment rate schedules uniformly by 2 basis points beginning in the first quarterly assessment...more
October 6, 2022- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen announced that Treasury has signed a loan agreement for the Clean Technology Fund—a multilateral trust fund which helps to scale up low carbon technologies in...more