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.

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Daniel Meade 
Partner and Editor, Cabinet News and Views