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24 05, 2023

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2023-05-24T17:16:58-04:00May 24th, 2023|2- Daily Briefing|

New Fed Paper Shows Link Between Twitter, Market Sentiment, Run Risk

A new FRB staff paper uses natural-language models and social-media data to craft a “twitter sentiment index” (TSI) that is then compared to actual market conditions.

Democrats Press Clawback, Regulatory Fixes as HFSC Considers Transparency Measures

Today’s HFSC mark-up so far has focused on one of Rep. Barr’s (R-KY) three regulatory transparency bills, with Democrats proposing a series of amendments without any deciding votes.

House Oversight Panel Focuses On Supervisory Accountability, Reform

At today’s hearing of the Financial Services Subcommittee of House Oversight on bank failures and supervision at the San Francisco Fed, Subcommittee Chairwoman McClain (R-MI) opened with a series of sharply-worded questions on who oversaw the bank, what factors might have distracted them from traditional supervision, why glaring risk factors were not more forcefully addressed, whether regulators were unduly complacent, whether the Fed and FDIC used all of their regulatory tools, and if the agencies have been objective and transparent in their bank failure post-mortems as well as their accounts of the systemic risk exception.

Markup Votes Postponed for Transparency, LLPA Bills

Since our last alert, Democrats continued to submit amendments for Rep Barr’s (R-KY) transparency bill at today’s HFSC markup and party lines cemented over Rep. Davidson’s (R-OH) LLPA bill.

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14 10, 2021

Daily101421

2023-06-07T16:17:21-04:00October 14th, 2021|2- Daily Briefing|

G7 Presses CBDC, Cross-Border Payment Work; Disparages Stablecoin
G7 finance ministers today released policy-setting statements on digital payments and CBDC. Building on recent BIS work (see Client Report CBDC6) essentially endorsing retail-facing CBDC, the G7 points to CBDC’s considerable benefits as long as the questions also addressed by the BIS are successfully answered in member jurisdictions.

Global Climate-Risk Disclosures Advance
The FSB’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) today reported that private-sector adoption of TCFD-aligned disclosures is accelerating, with over fifty percent of firms now disclosing climate-related risks and opportunities.

Cash-Acceptance Mandate Faces GOP Opposition
Continuing debate on the merits of mandating cash acceptance (see Client Report MERGER7), HFSC’s Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Green (D-TX) and Ranking Member Emmer (R-MN) remain diametrically opposed to mandating acceptance.

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