All President Biden articles
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ArticleBiden calls for banking exec clawbacks amid failures
President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to “do more to hold senior bank executives accountable” since the market turmoil that has followed the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
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Regulators on damage control following SVB, Signature Bank failures
The White House, Department of the Treasury, and other federal banking regulators swung into action over the weekend to prevent the failure of two banks with $264 billion in combined deposits from turning into a full-blown economic crisis.
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Privacy Shield replacement on track, though hurdles remain
The agreement on a new framework for transatlantic data flows between the United States and European Union could be finalized this year. Whether it can stand legal scrutiny is the real question.
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Congress or FTC? What about SEC? Where U.S. federal privacy legislation efforts stand in 2023
As more state laws hit the books, businesses are more adamant than ever Congress needs to pass a federal data privacy law. If lawmakers don’t rise to the occasion, which government agency might?
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Biden taps vice chair of Fed for economics post
President Joe Biden announced the appointment of Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Lael Brainard as director of the National Economic Council.
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U.S., U.K. improve anti-corruption coordination with data access agreement
A new agreement will allow law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom and United States to gain better access to data held by tech and telecommunications firms from the other’s country as part of evidence gathering for complex white-collar crimes.
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U.S. includes surveillance concessions in new transatlantic data flow framework
President Joe Biden’s executive order on a data privacy framework aims to provide a workable, legally resilient solution for companies to continue moving and storing the personal data of EU-based citizens to American-based servers without running afoul of the GDPR.
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FSOC recommends more regulation, oversight of digital assets
A new report by the Financial Stability Oversight Council identified three regulatory gaps in the current oversight of cryptocurrency, stablecoins, and other digital assets and recommended steps Congress and federal regulators should take to close them.
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Treasury seeking comment on illicit finance risks posed by digital assets
The Treasury Department is seeking public input on how to address illicit finance and national security risks posed by digital assets, part of a multipronged push by the Biden administration to hold bad actors accountable and identify potential enforcement and regulatory gaps.
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Michael Barr confirmed as Fed’s top banking regulator
Michael Barr, a professor and former top official at the Treasury Department, was confirmed by the Senate as vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirmed to second term
Jerome Powell is set to begin his second term as chair of the Federal Reserve after receiving bipartisan support in a Senate confirmation vote.
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Biden to nominate Michael Barr as Fed supervision head
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Michael Barr, a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Act and former Treasury Department assistant secretary, to serve as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision.
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Biden to nominate two for SEC commissioner openings
President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Jaime Lizárraga and Mark Uyeda for the Democratic and Republican commissioner openings, respectively, at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Treasury expands sanctions against large Russian banks
The Department of the Treasury announced strengthened sanctions against two of Russia’s largest financial institutions, Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, that were already subject to U.S. restrictions.
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Q1 roundup: SEC tackles climate disclosures, businesses navigate Russia restrictions, more
Regulation and guidance from U.S. agencies and the White House, plus compliance challenges stemming from a two-year global pandemic and Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, made the first quarter of 2022 a novel risk environment for regulated businesses.
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Third time’s the charm? Agreement in principle reached on U.S.-EU data flows
The United States and European Union have reached an agreement in principle on how to handle transatlantic data flows, a thorny issue that has resulted in two prior frameworks being scrapped by the EU’s top court.
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SEC releases highly anticipated climate-related disclosure rule
After months of anticipation, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued its proposed climate-related disclosure rule, a sweeping potential mandate that would force all public companies to quantify, measure, and disclose their effect on the environment.
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Advice for navigating ‘fast and furious’ Russian sanctions landscape
To help sort through the gray area of evolving sanctions and export control restrictions against Russia, chief compliance officers should consider a handful of key best practices.
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Sarah Bloom Raskin withdraws nomination as top banking regulator
Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Joe Biden’s pick to be vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve, withdrew her nomination after losing the support of a key Democratic senator.
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SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee to not seek second term
Allison Herren Lee announced she will not seek a second term as a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission once her current term expires in June.
