Feb 23 2015 | IOSCO to publish SIFI draft plans on asset managers, activities this week after another delay. Global regulators are set to renew a push to tackle too-big-to-fail risks in the investment-fund industry as standard setters expand their focus beyond banks and insurers.
Monday | CFPB director speaks before National Association of Attorneys General.
Tuesday | Senate Finance Committee holds hearing on tax law revisions. Senate Banking Committee hears from Fed Chair Janet Yellen on the U.S. economy, monetary policy and the global outlook. FDIC releases its Quarterly Banking Profile, the agency's report on industry-wide financial performance including updates on the agency's deposit insurance fund and roster of troubled institutions at heightened risk of failure.
Wednesday | House Financial Services Committee hears from Fed chair on monetary policy and state of economy.
Thursday | CFTC's energy and environmental markets advisory committee, sponsored by Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo, meets publicly to discuss proposed position-limit rules and how they may affect energy markets. In December, CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad said agency is committed to issuing final position-limits rule in timely manner; CFTC Commissioner Sharon Bowen said she believes agency can release final rule by spring 2015.
Friday | U.S. Monetary Policy Forum in New York. Netflix releases third season of "House of Cards."
Please see below for details on these and other events this week.
at the agencies
Thursday, Feb. 26 (LIVE WEBCAST)
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION | Public meeting of the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee to focus on the agency's proposed rules for position limits designed to curb speculation.
on the hill
Tuesday, Feb. 24
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING & URBAN AFFAIRS | "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress." Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to testify.
Tuesday, Feb. 24
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE | Full committee hearing on "Tax Reform, Growth and Efficiency."
Wednesday, Feb. 25
SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE | Full committee hearing on "Toward a 21st Century Regulatory System."
Wednesday, Feb. 25
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE | Full committee hearing on "Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy." Witness testimony will be given by Fed chair Janet Yellen.
Wednesday, Feb. 25
HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE | "The Administration's Cybersecurity legislative Proposal on Information Sharing."
Wednesday, Feb. 25
HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE | Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies hearing on the Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") budget. HUD Secretary Julian Castro to testify.
Thursday, Feb. 26
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE | Full committee hearing on "Congress and U.S. Tariff Policy."
Thursday, Feb. 26
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE | Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance hearing on "The Future of Housing in America: Oversight of the Federal Housing Administration" (Part 2).
across the globe
Wednesday, Feb. 25
LONDON | AFME European Market Liquidity Conference: Topics include the impacts of regulation on liquidity, the capital markets union and the implications for growth and the changing FX market landscape amid new regulation.
other events
Monday, Feb. 23
WASHINGTON DC | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray delivers remarks at the National Association of Attorneys General winter meeting.
Wednesday, Feb. 25
NEW YORK | Andrew Ceresney, director of the SEC's division of enforcement, will give the keynote address at the SIFMA Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes conference.
Wednesday, Feb. 25 (WEBCAST)
WASHINGTON DC | The Brookings Institution holds a discussion on "European Financial Regulation and Transatlantic Collaboration." Features Lord Hill, European commissioner for financial stability, financial services, and capital markets union
Thursday & Friday, Feb. 26-27
WASHINGTON DC | IA Watch's IA Compliance: The Full 360 Degree View conference. Speakers include Julie Riewe, co-chief of the SEC enforcement division's asset management unit, Regina Thoele, National Futures Association president of compliance, and Andrew Donohue, Goldman Sachs Asset Management deputy general counsel.
Friday, Feb. 27
NEW YORK | U.S. Monetary Policy Forum 2015 Annual Conference sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Appearances by Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, New York Fed President William Dudley, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Stanley Fischers, former Fed chair Ben Bernanke and Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso.