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Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Inspector General – SECs Oversight of Bear Stearns and Related Entities: Broker-Dealer Risk Assessment Program, September 25, 2008, Report No. 446-B SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets (TM)…”is not fulfilling its obligations in accordance with the underlying purpose of the Broker-Dealer Risk Assessment program in several respects. First, TM …
New York Times: “The Treasury Department, in its boldest move yet, is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to invest up to $250 billion in large and small banks, according to officials. The United States is also expected to guarantee new debt issued by banks for a period of three years, officials said. And the …
News release: “The U.S. Treasury Department today announced that EnnisKnupp and Associates will serve as its investment adviser for the implementation of the Troubled Asset Relief Program authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Treasury hired the Chicago-based firm Saturday and the firm began work immediately to help the Department administer the complex portfolio of …
Interim Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Neel Kashkari Remarks before the Institute of International Bankers, October 13, 2008 “On Friday October 3, Congress passed and President Bush signed into law the bipartisan Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The law gives the Treasury Secretary broad and flexible authority to purchase and insure mortgage assets, and …
DHS National Infrastructure Advisory Council – Resources for the October 14, 2008 Meeting: Draft Business Meeting Agenda (PDF, 2 pages) NIAC Frameworks for Dealing with Disasters and Related Interdependencies Working Group Slides (PDF, 12 pages): “This study focuses on the United States ability to respond to and recover from a major disaster that could result …
News release: “In order to provide broad access to liquidity and funding to financial institutions, the Bank of England (BoE), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) are jointly announcing further measures to improve liquidity in short-term U.S. dollar funding markets. The BoE, ECB, …
Executive Order: Further Amendments to Executive Orders 12139 and 12949 in Light of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, October 7, 2008
News release, September 29, 2008: “Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission today outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the …
“The International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IWG) presented the Santiago Principles to the International Monetary Fund’s policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee on October 11, 2008. The IWG made public the set of 24 voluntary Principles and related explanatory material and announced it has established a Formation Committee to explore the creation of …
Alex Patelis, Head of International Economics, Merrill Lynch; and Daniel Tenegauzer, Head of Global Currency Strategy, Merrill Lynch, at the Washington Federal Press Center Briefing on “The State of the Global Economy and Foreign Exchange,” Friday, October 10, 2008, Transcript Related postings on financial system
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday announced its approval of the application and notice under sections 3 and 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California, to acquire Wachovia Corporation and its subsidiary banks, Wachovia Bank, National Association, both of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Wachovia Bank …
DoD Fact Sheet: Update on Sodium Dichromate Exposure at Qarmat Ali Water Treatment Plant in 2003 (for Soldiers) 2008, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. For more information about Chromium VI, please visit: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Toxicological Profiles
