April 11, 2025- The Credit Access and Inclusion Act was introduced to expand credit access for millions of Americans with limited or non-existent credit histories. April 14, 2025- Federal Reserve Board Governor...more
April 9, 2025- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence held a hearing entitled “American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets...more
March 21, 2025 - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule striking the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN under...more
February 27, 2025 - FinCEN announced that it will not issue fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more
February 26, 2025- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “The Future of American Capital: Strengthening Public and Private Markets by Increasing Investor...more
December 18, 2024- The Federal Open Markets Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...more
December 11, 2024- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled “Protecting Workers’ Money and Fighting for the Dignity of Work.”...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
November 25, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a new report summarizing data from the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) for the first two years of the program, from the first transaction on...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 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
October 18, 2024- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen convened a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council in executive session at the U.S. Department of the Treasury....more
October 15, 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. The minutes cover the...more
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
October 10, 2024- TD Bank N.A., the 10th largest bank in the United States, and its parent company TD Bank US Holding Company pleaded guilty and agreed to an aggregate of $3 billion in fines and penalties—$1.8 billion in...more
October 3, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a staff report entitled “Need for Speed: Quality of Innovations and the Allocation of Inventors.” October 3, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York...more
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
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 23, 2024- Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell gave a speech entitled, “Review and Outlook,” at “Reassessing the Effectiveness and Transmission of Monetary Policy,” an economic symposium sponsored by the...more
April 17, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for February 2024. April 17, 2024- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics blog...more
Bipartisan, Bicameral Congressional Review Act resolution addressing Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 Introduced- A resolution invoking the Congressional Review Act was introduced to...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 24, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") announced that the Bank Term Funding Program, where the FRB purchased government bonds at par, will cease making new loans as scheduled on March 11, 2024, ending a key...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
December 7, 2022- Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, announced that the Committee successfully secured key provisions in the latest text of the National Defense...more