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Traders brace for reform of U.S. economic data releases
By Philip Stafford and Colby Smith
January 17, 2020, Financial Times
Traders are rethinking how they react to one of the market’s most important pieces of economic data, after the …
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U.S. Fed signals lighter touch on bank supervision, foreign bank oversight
By Michelle Price
January 17, 2020, Reuters
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Friday signaled it would take a lighter touch when supervising banks, in another win for the industry which …
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Trump taps Shelton, Waller for Fed board
By Brian Croce
January 17, 2020, Pensions&Investments
President Donald Trump on Thursday officially announced plans to nominate Judy Shelton and Christopher J. Waller to seats on the Federal Reserve board …
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SEC Commissioner Jackson leaving in February
By Hazel Bradford
January 16, 2020, Pensions&Investments
Robert Jackson Jr., the senior Democrat on the Securities and Exchange Commission, announced Thursday that he is leaving Feb. 14.
“I will always …
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U.S. agency to bar computers from economic data ‘lock ups’
By Brendan Greeley, Katie Martin, and Colby Smith
January 16, 2020, Financial Times
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a crucial change to how it releases government data, banning …
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It Wasn’t Just the Fed Keeping Repo Markets Cool at Year-End
By Stephen Spratt
January 16, 2020, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve was victorious in preventing a year-end squeeze in funding markets. But it had a little help from its friends.
A …
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Treasury to Issue New 20-Year Bond in First Half of 2020
By Kate Davidson
January 16, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. government will begin issuing 20-year bonds in the first half of 2020, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
The …
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ISDA chief calls for certainty on Chinese netting
By Joe Walters
January 15, 2020, Global Investor Group
The head of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has called on China to adhere to an internationally-recognized protocol used …
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House passes bills to require more reports from bank regulators
By Hannah Lang
January 14, 2020, American Banker
The House passed a bill requiring prudential banking regulators to give annual testimony to the Financial Services Committee, as well as a …
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The Global LEI Initiative: A Year-End 2019 Research Note and Predictions for 2020
By Allan D. Grody, Financial InterGroup
Originally published on the Financial InterGroup site
The LEI Initiative – A Decade in Review and Predictions For 2020
Before there was the Legal …
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