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Risk of Derivatives – The Fall of an Index

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Barings Bank, Orange County (CA), Enron, Long-Term Capital Management, and other entities misused derivatives or didn’t understand the difference between hedging and speculating. BSBY was not well received by US regulators from its inception, but the market eventually embraced SOFR over BSBY.

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Lawmaker Calls For Moratorium On Facebook Crypto

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Facebook is facing more opposition regarding its cryptocurrency , with Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, calling for a moratorium on the digital currency. Facebook has data on billions of people and has repeatedly shown a disregard for the protection and careful use of this data.

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FB Touched Base With Fed On Crypto

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Facebook, I believe, has made quite broad rounds around the world with regulators, supervisors and lots of people to discuss their plans and that certainly includes us,” Powell said on Wednesday (June 19), according to CNBC. Libra is designed to be a stablecoin, pegged to the value of government-issued currencies.

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FinTech Could Be Hurt By Fight Between OCC And States

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TechCrunch said the fight between states and the OCC centers on a proposal made by the OCC in December, in which it details a program that enables FinTechs to apply for charters to become special purpose national banks. Other concerns are that the OCC doesn’t understand FinTech and therefore shouldn’t regulate it.

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Lawmakers Urge CFPB To Ease Up On Small Banks

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Although the CFPB has claimed, in many cases, that it allows many smaller banks and credit unions to be exempt from many of the regulations, the congressional members have expressed fear that the bureau may not be doing enough to ensure those smaller financial institution aren’t unnecessarily regulated.

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Lawmakers Want NHTSA To Study Connected Car Security

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Aiming to beef up security in connected and driverless cars , a group of lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives that would put the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in charge of studying security issues for cars and trucks that are connected and eventually driverless.

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Pentagon’s Vendor Payments Eyed In Bipartisan Bill

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The legislation was introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act and is modeled under the Accelerated Payments for Small Businesses Act (APSBA) of 2018, reports noted. Steve Knight (R-CA) and Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY).

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