Fed Study Highlights DeFi Risks
The Federal Reserve yesterday released a staff study concluding that DeFi regulation poses unspecified but unintended consequences even as it reiterated and expanded on potential risks.
FSB’s Domanski Reinforces Calls for Holistic Crypto Framework
Dietrich Domanski, the FSB’s Secretary General, today reiterated global regulators’ call for a holistic crypto framework to rationalize digital payments so that innovation remains well governed.
Fed Study Details Need For, Challenges to Crypto Regulation
Another Fed study today repeats some of the DeFi study’s concerns noted earlier today, but goes on to a broader examination of digital-asset risk based on the Fed’s financial-stability methodology (see Client Report SYSTEMIC93).
FHLB System Opened for Possible Reform
Acting on Director Thompson’s promise to Congress, FHFA today announced a sweeping review of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. This will begin at a late-September “listening” session, proceeding then to additional national and regional discussions.