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April 17, 2025 - Federal Reserve Board Governor Michael S. Barr gave a speech entitled, “Deepfakes and the AI Arms Race in Bank Cybersecurity.” April 17, 2025- The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published an article...more
April 15, 2025 - The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency temporarily paused certain appraisal requirements for...more
March 31, 2025 - The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled “The Evolution of Inflation Targeting from the 1990s to 2020s: Developments and New Challenges.”...more
March 28, 2025 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a Financial Institution Letter that provides new guidance for FDIC-supervised institutions engaging or seeking to engage in crypto-related activities...more
March 10, 2025 - The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reported in the 2024 Shared National Credit (SNC) report that credit risk associated with...more
March 7, 2025 - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published Interpretive Letter 1183 to confirm that supervisory nonobjection is no longer needed for crypto-asset custody, and that certain stablecoin activities...more
February 20, 2025- The Bank Policy Institute, American Bankers Association, Americas Focus Committee of the Association of Global Custodians, Financial Services Forum, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association...more
February 14, 2025- The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled “Estimating the Volume of Counterfeit U.S. Currency in Circulation.” February 14, 2025- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a...more
February 7, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the appointment of Rodney E. Hood as Acting Comptroller of the Currency, effective February 10, 2025. The Acting Comptroller also will be a director on the...more
January 14, 2025- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Martin Gruenberg gave a speech entitled “Three Financial Crises and Lessons for the Future,” at the Brookings Institution....more
December 16, 2024 - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) set forth the key issues facing the federal banking system in its Semiannual Risk Perspective for Fall 2024....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 5, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a staff report entitled “Corporate Debt Structure over the Global Credit Cycle.” December 5, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board published a Liberty Street...more
November 26, 2024 - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that was held on November 6–7, 2024. November 26, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board published a working...more
On September 10, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Barr gave a speech (the Barr Speech) in which he outlined the principal changes to the federal banking agencies' 2023 proposal to implement the Basel Endgame (the...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 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
August 21, 2024- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that was held on July 30–31, 2024. August 21, 2024- The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published a...more
August 15, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury updated the CFIUS website to share more details and guidance with the public and the investing community about how CFIUS approaches compliance and enforcement, as well...more
August 7, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Trade Commission announced actions to address unfair and deceptive consumer acts and practices in the...more
August 2, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board requested comment on a proposed rule that would establish data standards for certain information collections submitted to financial regulatory agencies....more
July 18, 2024- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed an interpretive rule explaining that many paycheck advance products, sometimes marketed as “earned wage” products, could be consumer loans subject to the...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
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 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