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September 14, 2023

As we are heading to press, the House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy is holding a hearing on the Basel III Endgame proposal from the federal banking agencies. We will have more on that next week.

This week, my colleagues, Peter Malyshev and Mercedes Tunstall delve into the latest actions taken by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the decentralized finance arena, detailing the CFTC’s growing influence over this space.

My colleague Lary Stromfeld explores the potential discontinuation of the Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index, as proposed by Bloomberg Information Services Limited, and the implications for financial markets.

Mercedes Tunstall has another piece discussing an announcement this week by The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wherein it, along with 41 states and the District of Columbia, reached a resolution in a multistate investigation concerning the leasing activities engaged in by a specialty consumer finance company.

I review the post-mortem report issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation last week on the FDIC’s supervision of First Republic Bank.

Lastly, but certainly not least, we cover issues from the UK. My colleague Alix Prentice dives into recent regulatory developments from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority regarding residential mortgages. Sukhvier Basran and Sharon Takhar discuss the unveiling of the European Commission’s annual Strategic Foresight Report.

We’re always here for comments and questions. Just drop me a note here

Daniel Meade 
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The CFTC has announced three enforcement actions this month that further cement the CFTC’s jurisdiction over the decentralized finance space.

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Earlier this week, Bloomberg Information Services Limited announced that it is seeking feedback on a proposal to cease the publication of the Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index “following a review of commercial opportunities for BSBY.”

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced earlier this week that it and 41 states and the District of Columbia had resolved a multistate investigation in the leasing activities engaged in by specialty consumer finance company Tempoe. 

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Last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a report from its Chief Risk Officer entitled “FDIC’s Supervision of First Republic Bank”. The FDIC was First Republic Bank’s primary federal banking agency, as First Republic was a state-nonmember bank. The report is basically a post-mortem of the FDIC’s supervision of First Republic leading up until its failure in May.

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In June of this year, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority introduced rules to allow mortgage lenders to more easily vary contracts in order to allow borrowers to make reduced capital payments or switch to an interest-only loan for a period of up to six months.

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In July 2023, the European Commission published its annual Strategic Foresight Report, focusing on how sustainability and people’s wellbeing can help to achieve President von der Leyen’s six priorities for the European Union, referred to as the “Open Strategic Autonomy.” The Open Strategic Autonomy is characterized by: a European Green Deal, a Europe fit for the digital age, an economy that works for people, a stronger Europe in the world, promoting the European way of life and a new push for European democracy. The Report identifies six critical social and economic challenges to its sustainability transition and ten ways to overcome those challenges.

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