April 20, 2015 | The Volcker Alliance will release a report today arguing for fewer financial agencies. The group of former regulators and lawmakers founded in 2013 will outline its views on what should be done with the complex system of agencies and rules governing the U.S. financial industry. Paul Volcker, the group's 87-year-old namesake and former Fed chairman, has publicly decried what he sees as an overlapping, inefficient system that leaves out major portions of the "shadow banking" industry.
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the week in brief ...
Monday | International trade talks in New York. First meeting of House, Senate FY16 budget conferees. Global commodities summit starts in Lausanne. The 119th running of the Boston Marathon.
Tuesday | FDIC talks restoration plan, large bank insurance.
Wednesday | MSRB weighs adding pre-trade data to EMMA. AIG bailout trial closing arguments. 
Thursday | Insurance agents, brokers meet lawmakers for legislative day.
Friday | Negotiators begin next round of informal talks on the TPP. Euro-area finance ministers and central bankers meet for two days in Riga to discuss capital market barriers. Apple Watch, Apple Inc.'s first new gadget since the iPad, goes on sale.
Please see below for details on these and other events this week.
at the agencies
Monday, Apr. 20
BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM | Closed meeting for a period briefing and discussion on financial markets, institutions, and infrastructure. (1:30 pm ET)
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY | Executive session of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) via telephone to discuss the Council's draft 2015 annual report.
Tuesday, Apr. 21
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION | Board of Directors will meet in open session. Agenda includes briefing on projected deposit insurance fund losses, income and reserve ratios for FDIC's restoration plan, discussion of proposed rule on large bank deposit insurance determination modernization. (10am ET)
Tuesday, Apr. 21 - Wednesday, Apr. 22
OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY | OCC Compliance and Credit Risk Workshops in Denver. Topics include major compliance risks and critical regulations, such as BSA and CRA, critical elements of an effective compliance risk management program and how to identify compliance red flags.
Wednesday, Apr. 22 - Friday, Apr. 24
MUNICIPAL SECURITIES RULEMAKING BOARD | Board meeting to discuss the potential addition of pre-trade information to the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) website; the development of interpretive guidance for municipal securities dealers regarding MSRB Rule G-18, on best execution, which is effective Dec. 7; and comment letters on a proposal to require dealers to provide pricing reference information on retail customer confirmations.
Thursday, Apr. 23
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION | Closed meeting to consider institution and settlement of injunctive actions, institution and settlement of administrative proceedings, and other matters relating to enforcement proceedings. (2pm ET)
on the hill
Monday, Apr. 20
SENATE-HOUSE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE | Full committee meeting on the FY2016 Budget. (3pm ET)
Wednesday, Apr. 22
HOUSE SMALL BUSINESS | Full committee hearing on "Small Business, Big Threat: Protecting Small Businesses from Cyber Attacks." (11am ET)
Thursday, Apr. 23
SENATE FINANCE | Full committee hearing on the nominations of Anne Wall to be a deputy Treasury undersecretary and Brodi Fontenot to be chief financial officer of the Treasury Department. (2pm ET)
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES | Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit hearing on "Examining Regulatory Burdens - Regulator Perspective." (9:15 am ET)
across the globe
Monday, Apr. 20 - Wednesday, Apr. 22
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND | 4th Annual "FT Commodities Global Summit."
Wednesday, Apr. 22 - Friday, Apr. 24
BERMUDA | "Regulation, Operations and Compliance - Bermuda 2015." Speakers include former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton, National Futures Association CEO and President Daniel Roth and former SEC Enforcement Director George Canellos.
Thursday, Apr. 23 - Friday, Apr. 24
MONTREAL | International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) 30th Annual General Meeting. SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar and CFTC Commissioner Mark Wetjen will both speak on a March 23 panel dealing with cross-border regulations of derivatives markets. The next day, CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad will give a morning keynote address. Several other CFTC officials are also scheduled to speak on panels.
Friday, Apr. 24
RIGA, LATVIA | Informal two-day meeting of Ministers for Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) to discuss policy plans to spur cross-border capital flows.
other events
Monday, Apr. 20
NEW YORK | "Paris EUROPLACE International Financial Forum" for institutional investors, corporate issuers, bankers and insurers. Focus on European economy, investment opportunities and challenges in Europe and the U.S., regulatory and policy issues.
NEW YORK | Bloomberg hosts its first annual "Americas Monetary Summit." Central bankers from the U.S., Chile, Colombia, Canada and Peru to speak.
NEW YORK | The U.S. and European Union hold a ninth round of negotiations on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) through Thursday.
WASHINGTON DC | Volcker Alliance holds new conference with former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker at the National Press Club.
Tuesday, Apr. 21
NEW YORK | "Bloomberg's Cybersecurity Summit." Speakers include Chris Hetner, cybersecurity lead of the SEC's technology control program, and the FBI's Tim O'Brien, a supervisory special agency in the cyber crimes unit.
Wednesday, Apr. 22
WASHINGTON DC | AIG Bailout Trial. Closing arguments are scheduled to be heard in Starr International Company's lawsuit against the U.S. government over its $85 billion bailout of American International Group in 2008. Starr Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the insurer's former CEO, has claimed the terms of the bailout cheated AIG's stockholders. (10am ET)
Wednesday, Apr. 22 - Friday, Apr. 24
WASHINGTON DC | Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America holds its annual legislative conference. Members of the insurance lobby will meet with lawmakers to discuss insurance regulatory developments as well as flood insurance, health insurance, taxation and other economic issues. 
Thursday, Apr. 23
WEBINAR | Bloomberg BNA webinar on the "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: A Year in Review and a Look at What is Ahead." Speakers include Gerald S. Sachs, Kevin L. Petrasic and Lawrence D. Kaplan, of Paul Hastings.
WASHINGTON DC | The Atlantic's "Summit on the Economy." Speakers include Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro, Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Thomas Perez, and Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) Chairman Jason Furman. (9am - 5pm ET)
Thursday, Apr. 23 - Sunday, Apr. 26
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD | Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries are set to hold their chief negotiators meeting at a conference center roughly 30 minutes outside of Washington. The chief negotiators will be accompanied by relatively few of the issue-area teams, notably those dealing with the contentious intellectual property rights chapter and the chapter on competition policy for state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The market access teams will likely also be at the negotiating table. 
Transparency. Inclusiveness. Consensus.