FICO

MARCH 31, 2016

During this period of Congressional gridlock, much of the activity in Washington DC impacting the financial services industry remains focused on the development and implementation of new regulations. Model management continues to present financial institutions with new compliance obstacles. Please join us in Washington DC April 26 -29!

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2013

They announced another quantitative easing program—this time, QE3—part 2, in which they will buy $45 billion a month in Treasury bonds in addition to the $40 billion per month of mortgage backed securities that they are buying for QE3. The tax bracket changes become permanent and that will allow planning to resume.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

They have seemed fairly nervous about their large balance sheet, so in September, 2017, they announced that they would allow bonds to mature or pay off in October- by $4 billion in Agency mortgage backed securities and $6 billion in Treasuries, for a total of $10 billion. Fiscal Policy We are not seeing activity from Washington DC.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In another easing action dubbed “Operation Twist,” the Fed stated that they will sell $400 billion of their shorter securities (less than 3 year maturities) and buy the same amount of longer securities (6 to 30 year maturities) by June, 2012. They haven’t tried a “twist” since the 1960s. Gas prices clearly have room to move downward.

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