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[ April 28, 2025 ] NCUA to discuss ‘voluntary separation programs’ at May 22 board meeting NCUA
[ April 28, 2025 ] Concerns up sharply over global trade as risk to financial system, latest financial stability survey finds The Fed
[ April 28, 2025 ] Comments due June 23 on Fed stress-test changes The Fed
[ April 28, 2025 ] Pair of Wells Fargo auditors reaches settlement with regulator over phony sales practices OCC
[ April 25, 2025 ] Fed, FDIC join OCC in scaling back roadblocks to bank involvement in crypto assets FDIC

OFR blog post highlights 3 ways ‘DeFi’ growth could threaten financial stability

February 7, 2023 0

The risk to financial stability should decentralized finance (DeFi) continue to grow in size and scope – and without the guardrails that are in place for traditional finance – is discussed in a blog post […]

RFI seeks credit unions’ input on digital assets, related technologies

July 22, 2021 0

Input on potential and current impacts of the use of digital assets and related technologies – or, said another way, the impacts of distributed ledger technology (DLT, such as blockchain) and decentralized finance (DeFi) – […]

NCUA to discuss ‘voluntary separation programs’ at May 22 board meeting

April 28, 2025 0

The National Credit Union Administration’s plan for a May 22 open board meeting is no longer labeled “tentative” but will, the agency said Friday, include a briefing on the federal share insurance fund for credit unions and an “updated” briefing [...]
Concerns up sharply over global trade as risk to financial system, latest financial stability survey finds

April 28, 2025 0

Risk to global trade is considered a “salient risk” to the financial system and the broader global economy by nearly three in four respondents to a Federal Reserve survey on financial stability, the agency said late Friday. The 73% of [...]
Comments due June 23 on Fed stress-test changes

April 28, 2025 0

Public comments on proposed modifications to yearly stress-testing of large banks – averaging results over two consecutive years and streamlining related data collection – are due to the Federal Reserve Board by June 23, according to a Federal Register notice. [...]
Pair of Wells Fargo auditors reaches settlement with regulator over phony sales practices

April 28, 2025 0

Two former auditors for Wells Fargo Bank have reached an agreement with the national bank regulator that the agency said late Friday resolves an enforcement issue over long-running sales practices misconduct first brought against the duo five years ago. In [...]
Fed, FDIC join OCC in scaling back roadblocks to bank involvement in crypto assets

April 25, 2025 0

Joint statements on crypto assets, issued two years ago, were withdrawn late Thursday by two federal banking regulators; one of them, the Federal Reserve, also said it was withdrawing guidance related to crypto-asset and dollar token activities In separate releases, [...]