Hearing: Senate Banking Committee
Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress March 1, 2018 10:00 AM 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on […]
Federal Reserve
Other
Powell to appear one day earlier for House testimony
Changes in the House schedule have led to a change in the testimony date for the new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the House Financial Services Committee said Friday. In a release, Chairman Jeb […]
Hearing: House Financial Services Committee
Hearing entitled “Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy” Tuesday, February 27, 2018 10:00 AM in 2128 Rayburn HOB Full Committee Click here for the Committee Memorandum. The Committee on Financial Services has rescheduled […]
The Fed
Ohio, Indiana banks get the go-ahead for merger plan
First Financial Bancorp of Cincinnati has received the go-ahead from the Federal Reserve to merge with MainSource Financial Group of Greenberg, Ind. – and for First Financial Bank to establish and operate branches at the […]
FDIC
Agencies take next step to combine stress-test reports into one
Following no comments received last fall, the three federal banking agencies are moving forward on their proposal to combine three separate, yet identical, stress test reports into a single new Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council […]
Federal financial regulation
At Tokyo forum, Fed supervisory leader again calls for reassessing financial reg reform
Repeating a past call to reassess financial regulation reform in the wake of the financial crisis 10 years ago, the Federal Reserve’s top supervisory leader told a Tokyo audience Thursday that now is an “eminently […]
Other
FFIEC publishes HMDA guide for 2018 data due March 2019
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has updated its Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) guide for the collection of 2018 data due to be reported March 1, 2019. The umbrella agency represents federal regulators […]
The Fed
Fed gives nod to merger of Louisiana, Florida banks
A merger between Louisiana and Florida banks, which would make the Louisiana institution the 64th largest in the country, has been approved by the Federal Reserve, the central bank announced Wednesday. The Fed said it had […]
FDIC
Comment period on swap margin requirement for QFCs to begin
A 60-day comment period will start as early as Wednesday on proposed swap margin requirements to conform with recent rule changes imposing new restrictions on certain qualified financial contracts (QFCs) of systemically important banking organizations, […]
The Fed
Ex-Barclays FX trader would be barred for life, pay nearly $500K penalty, for influencing trading
A former Barclays Bank employee would be barred for life from banking industry employment and assessed a nearly half-million-dollar fine for using electronic chat rooms to influence foreign exchange pricing benchmarks under a notice filed […]