31 Aug 2015
Week InAdvance
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TUESDAY, SEP 16
Market Practices Council Telecon
11:00 am - noon

WEDNESDAY, SEP 30
Monthly Membership Telecon
4:30 - 5 pm
(Held on the last Wednesday of each month)

TUESDAY, NOV 17
2015 Fall Market Practices in-Person
Boston, Massachusetts
8:30 am to 1:30 pm 
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Matthew Jones
Staff Director
mjones@association.institutionalINVESTORS.org
(202) 712-9050
week in brief
MONDAY, AUG 31
Envoys from more than 190 countries gather in Bonn for a five-day United Nations conference on global warming.

TUESDAY, SEP 1
HUD kicks off conference on fair housing. Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, who will vote on monetary policy next year, speaks on economic outlook in New York.

WEDNESDAY, SEP 2
Conference on the future of Asian financing in Jakarta. Fed issues the Beige Book of economic conditions.

THURSDAY, SEP 3
China holds military parade at Tiananmen Square to mark the 70th anniversary of its victory over Japan in World War II. South Korean President Park Geun Hye and Russian President Vladimir Putin are among world leaders who will be attending, while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declined an invitation.

FRIDAY, SEP 4
EIOPA will discuss its final advice on infrastructure investment risk. G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors meet in Ankara, Turkey for two days to discuss the global economy. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker gives a speech titled, "The Case Against Further Delay," in Richmond VA.
at the agencies
MONDAY, AUG 31
BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Closed meeting for review and determination by the Board of Governors of the advance and discount rates to be charged by the Federal Reserve Banks.

TUESDAY, SEP 1
BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Closed meeting for a Briefing and Discussion on Developments in Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructures.

TUESDAY, SEP 1
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT
HUD Secretary Julian Castro hosts fair housing conference with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former VP Walter Mondale.

WEDNESDAY, SEP 2
BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Federal Reserve issues the Beige Book of economic conditions`
on the hill
Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill on September 8th.
across the globe
MONDAY, AUG 31
BONN, GERMANY
United Nations' "Climate Change Conference." The tenth part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). The working meeting is aimed at narrowing the options available for countries expected to sign a climate deal this December in Paris. Through 09/04.

TUESDAY, SEP 1
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
European Parliament's Special Committee on Tax Rulings. Speakers include German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan and Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos.

WEDNESDAY, SEP 2
JAKARTA, INDONESIA
Conference on "Future of Asian financing." Speakers include International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Urjit Patel, Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso, Indonesia Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro and IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department Division Chief Ulric Erickson von Allmen.

FRIDAY, SEP 4
FRANKFURT, GERMANY
European Occupational Insurance and Pensions Authority public hearing to discuss the authority's final advice to the European Commission on infrastructure investments.

FRIDAY, SEP 4 -
SATURDAY, SEP 5
ANKARA, TURKEY
G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors meet to discuss global economic affairs. Officials attending include U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Through 09/05.
other events
MONDAY, AUG 31 -
FRIDAY, SEP 4
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators Training Conference. Speakers include David A. Montoya, inspector general at HUD, David C. Williams, inspector general at USPS, and Richard Weber, chief of IRS criminal investigation at the IRS.

TUESDAY, SEP 1
NEW YORK CITY
Forecasters Club of New York. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren speaks on the economic outlook.

THURSDAY, SEP 3
WASHINGTON DC
The Brookings Institution holds a discussion on "What Happens When the Fed Raises Rates?"

FRIDAY, SEP 4
RICHMOND, VIRGINA
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker gives a speech titled, "The Case Against Further Delay," during a Retail Merchants Association breakfast. The remarks by Lacker, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, precede the Sept. 16-17 meeting of the rate-setting panel in Washington.