- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2024-02-21T15:59:00
It’s been nearly a year since Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) kicked off a run of U.S. bank failures, and the Federal Reserve Board has changed how it supervises mid-sized and large institutions as a result.
Since March 2023, the Fed has revamped its supervisory procedures to respond more quickly and forcefully once it identifies emerging risks mid-sized and large banks aren’t taking seriously enough, according to Michael Barr, the agency’s vice chair for supervision.
In a speech delivered Friday to the Columbia Law School Banking Conference in New York City, Barr said the Fed has sought to address the supervisory issues that failed to properly manage the deficiencies that led to the collapse of SVB, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank last year.
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Federal regulators adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking on incentive-based compensation requiring large banks to make their executive compensation arrangements “more sensitive to risk.”
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation proposed to strengthen its approach to evaluating bank mergers under the Bank Merger Act, particularly how it would address factors like competition, financial resources, the convenience and needs of communities, financial stability, and money laundering.
New York Community Bancorp, a mid-sized bank struggling with precarious commercial loans and troubles with its acquisition of the failed Signature Bank last year, named a new chief risk officer and chief audit executive.
President-elect Donald Trump announced he plans to appoint Cantor Fitzgerald President and CEO Howard Lutnick to lead the U.S. Commerce Department, as the incoming administration is expected to charge import tariffs against friends and foes.
If your business uses leather, rubber, wood, beef, palm oil, soy, or paper, then you may need to comply with the EU Deforestation Directive, a new rule intended to ensure that no goods traded in the EU contribute to global deforestation.
With the presidential election this week, one fear has remained on the minds of voters regardless of their political stripe–that artificial intelligence will be misused to change the outcome of the race.
