WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
October 11, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund announced an agreement to issue three guarantees worth $498 million under the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program, the...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 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 6, 2024- The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), in partnership with the Brookings Institution, hosted the first day of a conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Financial Stability....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
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 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
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
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 24, 2022- Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen gave remarks at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Annual Meeting concerning, among other things, regulators' actions to address high...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
October 3, 2022- The Financial Stability Oversight Council held a meeting on October 3, 2022 where it unanimously approved its Report on Digital Asset Financial Stability Risks and Regulation....more
September 12, 2022- The Federal Reserve Board published a paper entitled, "The impact of risk cycles on business cycles: a historical view."...more
July 21, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Priced Out: The State of Housing in America."...more
Major Developments- Justice Department Announces Enforcement Action Charging Six Individuals with Cryptocurrency Fraud Offenses in Cases Involving Over $100 Million in Intended Losses...more
Federal Agencies- Federal Reserve Bank of New York- Article: Contributing to a Fair and Transparent FX Market- June 21, 2022- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published an article entitled, "Contributing to a Fair...more
Major Developments- Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement- June 15, 2022- The Federal Reserve issued a statement regarding the Federal Open Market Committee meeting held June 14-15.-...more
Congress- U.S. Senate- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs- Brown Presses FSOC to Protect Consumer Data-...more
Federal Agencies- U.S. Department of the Treasury- U.S. Treasury Severs More Networks Providing Support for Putin and Russia's Elites-...more