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January 28, 2025 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released two reports looking at national rental payment data from September 2021 to November 2024. January 28, 2025 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...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 20, 2024- The Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator have a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which sets out the high-level...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
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 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 31, 2024- Members of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services sent a letter to federal banking regulators at the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Federal...more
September 30, 2024- Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell gave a speech entitled “Economic Outlook,” at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee....more
September 26, 2024 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury is undertaking actions as part of a coordinated international effort to disrupt Russian cybercrime services. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...more
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled “Regulatory Recipe for Economic Uncertainty: The Endless Basel Endgame and an Onslaught of...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 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
February 28, 2024- The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it has recovered over $375 million as a result of its implementation of an enhanced fraud detection process that utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI)...more
February 27, 2024- U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry (NC-10) reintroduced the Financial Services Innovation Act. This legislation establishes federal regulatory "sandboxes" through Financial...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 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 21, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) took another major step in support of U.S. Government efforts to crack down on illicit finance and enhance corporate...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
November 16, 2023- The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has updated its Beneficial Ownership Information FAQs to include new questions about the reporting process, reporting companies, beneficial owners,...more
February 9, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board released the hypothetical scenarios for its annual stress test. This year, 23 banks will be tested against a severe global recession with heightened stress in both commercial and...more
Congress- U.S. House of Representatives- Committee on Financial Services- Hearing: Digital Assets and the Future of Finance: Examining the Benefits and Risks of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency-...more