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OPEN FOR COMMENT: For the first time, the FSOC is proposing to issue a framework broadly explaining how it identifies, evaluates, and responds to potential risks to U.S. financial stability, whether they come from activities individual firms, or otherwise

Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1432 The Financial Stability Oversight Council (Council) today voted unanimously to issue for public comment a proposed analytic framework for financial stability risks. This new framework is intended to provide greater transparency to the public about how the Council identifies, assesses, and addresses

Gary Gensler: "We must build upon the work of the Hedge Fund Working Group. That means looking at large, interconnected, highly-levered hedge funds, associated repo markets for financing, the prevalence of low to 0 haircuts in such funding..."

Gary Gensler: "We must build upon the work of the Hedge Fund Working Group. That means looking at large, interconnected, highly-levered hedge funds, associated repo markets for financing, the prevalence of low to 0 haircuts in such funding, & the extension of leverage from banks & prime brokers."

FICC Alert! FICC approves rule change to Revise the Description of the Stressed Period Used to Calculate the Value-at-Risk Charge.

FICC represents that, in order to mitigate the increased risk exposures, FICC has to quickly and timely respond to rapidly changing market conditions. SR-FICC-2023-003 34-97342 Order Granting Proposed Rule Change to Revise the Description of the Stressed Period Used to Calculate the Value-at-Risk Charge and Make Other Changes Source: https:

The Fed receives cash and provides collateral: As of 4/19, $2,666,343 million in Reverse Repurchase agreements

3/15/2023: $2,423,126 million Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WLRRAL Zooming in, since 3/15/2023, Reverse Repurchase Agreements +$243,217 million. * Reverse repurchase agreements are transactions in which securities are sold to a set of counterparties under an agreement to buy them back from the

$336.9408 billion as of 4/19 ($2,144 billion so far...): An update on the tools the Fed is using to give banks liquidity while 'we' get Inflation & Rate Hikes

Discount Window, Central Bank Liquidity Swaps, Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), “Other credit extensions”, & "Foreign Official" Good afternoon Superstonk, resident jellyfish back with you for another week's review of the Fed's tools. Let's Hit it! This week's Fed balance

SEC Alert! Special filing with Federal Register: SEC submits notice for the 18th CLOSED door meeting this year via the Sunshine Act for 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, 2023.

source: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-08706.pdf CLOSED door meetings 2023: Meeting NumberDate184/27174/20164/13154/6143/30133/23123/16113/9103/292/2382/1672/962/251/2641/1931/1221/911/5 Seems to be a weekly occurrence every week since the year began. What has them so occupied? The Federal

Federal Reserve Alert! Sunshine Meeting Notice for a CLOSED meeting under Expedited Procedures of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at 11:30 a.m. on April 24, 2023.

Matter(s) considered: Review and determination of the advance and discount rates to be charged by the Fed. Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/boardmeetings/20230424closed.htm Summary: A closed meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System will be held under expedited procedures at 11:30