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  • BIS: Macroprudential Policies For Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risks: Challenges And Trade-Offs

    Date 04/04/2023

    Highlights

    • Macroprudential policies aim to maintain financial stability by increasing the resilience of the financial system (together with the microprudental framework) and containing the accumulation of systemic risks.
    • Standard macroprudential instruments (such as capital add-ons on specific exposures) may not always contribute to these objectives when deployed to address the systemic implications of climate-related financial risks, as they could exacerbate transition risks.
    • In order to mitigate these potential side effects, authorities need to carefully define the scope of application of such macroprudential policies.
    • While overcoming these challenges is an operationally complex task, failure to do so may render such macroprudential policies ineffective and potentially counterproductive for financial stability.

  • SEC Charges Founder Of Frank With Fraud In Connection With $175 Million Sale Of Student Loan Assistance Company

    Date 04/04/2023

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Charlie Javice, the founder of the now shuttered student loan assistance company previously known as Frank, with fraud in connection with the $175 million sale of the company to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., (JPMC) in 2021. The SEC’s complaint alleges that Javice orchestrated a scheme to deceive JPMC into believing that Frank had access to valuable data on 4.25 million students who used Frank’s service when in reality the number was less than 300,000.

  • Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer: Commodity Price Outlook And Interest Rate Concerns Cloud Farmer Sentiment

    Date 04/04/2023

    Farmer sentiment weakened ­again in March as the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer fell 8 points to a reading of 117. Both of the barometer's sub-indices declined 8 points in March, leaving the Current Conditions Index at 126 and the Future Expectations Index at 113. The Ag Economy Barometer is calculated each month from 400 U.S. agricultural producers' responses to a telephone survey. This month's survey was conducted between March 13-17, which coincided with the demise of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

  • OCC Clears Over 1B Total Contracts In March 2023, Highest Month On Record And Up 12.2% Year-Over-Year

    Date 04/04/2023

    OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through March 2023 was 46.3 million contracts, up 8.4 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through March 2022. Total volume was 1.1 billion contracts, up 12.2 percent compared to March 2022. March 2023 was the highest total volume month in OCC’s history and the first time cleared contract volume surpassed 1 billion contracts in a single month.

  • Inflation Persistence And Monetary Policy − Speech By Huw Pill, Bank Of England, Chief Economist And Executive Director, Monetary Analysis, ICMB Lecture, Graduate Institute, Geneva

    Date 04/04/2023

    In this speech Huw Pill discusses the outlook for the economy, including how lower energy prices might push down on inflation in the short term, but could also boost demand and therefore impact inflation in the medium term. He stresses that the MPC must continue to monitor how these external shocks to inflation might become embedded in the economy, and therefore risk persistently high domestically driven inflation. He goes into detail about the Monetary Policy Committee’s role in controlling inflation, and the potential impact of its recent significant increases to interest rates. He outlines how the Monetary Policy Committee carefully assesses the impact of interest rate rises that have yet to feed through, with the need to address current inflationary pressures.