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Tuesday, Feb 23
CFTC panel
to discuss blockchain technology.
Wednesday, Feb 24
House Financial Services panel meets on Dodd-Frank and Basel III.
Thursday, Feb 25
CFTC energy panel meets on exceptions to swap-dealer threshodls. House Ag panel reviews G-20 swap data reporting goals.
Friday, Feb 26
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meet in Shanghai to discuss global economy.
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Please see below for details on these and other events this week.
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COMMODITIES FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
Open meeting of the Technology Advisory Committee. Topics include the CFTC's proposed Regulated Automated Trading swap data standardization and harmonization, as well as blockchain and its potential application to the derivatives market.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Closed meeting for a periodic supervisory update.
Thursday, Feb 25
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Open meeting of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. Topics of discussion include capital formation landscape for small and emerging companies.
Thursday, Feb 25
COMMODITIES FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
The CFTC's Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee holds a public meeting that will include a discussion of the agency staff's preliminary report regarding the exceptions to swap-dealer thresholds being established under the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Wednesday, Feb 24
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommitee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises hearing on "The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III on the Fixed Income Market and Securitizations."
Wednesday, Feb 24
HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS
Full committee hearing on "The Global Tax Environment in 2016 and Implications for International Tax Reform"
to consider possible changes to U.S. taxes on domestic companies' international earnings, with a goal of marking up legislation later this year.
Thursday, Feb 25
HOUSE AGRICULTURE
Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit hearing to review G-20 swap data reporting goals.
CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad has said that enhancing the quality and consistency of swaps data is an agency goal for 2016, one that is shared by international regulators, who are frustrated that the data they are receiving isn't standardized and varies substantially in terms of quality.
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Monday, Feb 22 -
Friday, Feb 26
BRUSSELS, Belgium
The 12th round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks between the U.S. and the European Union.
Tuesday, Feb 23 -
Wednesday, Feb 24
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
Global Women's Forum Dubai 2016. Speakers
include International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Queen
Rania
of Jordan and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
Friday, Feb 26 -
Saturday, Feb 27
SHANGHAI, China
The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors convene to discuss boosting growth in the face of global economic headwinds and the adoption of negative interest rates in some countries.
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Tuesday, Feb 23
NEW YORK CITY
MSRB Municipal Operations Advisor, Barbara Voute', will speak at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association T+2 Symposium.
Wednesday, Feb 24 -
Friday, Feb 26
WASHINGTON DC
IA Compliance: The Full 360 Degree View Conference. Speakers include Marc Wyatt, the SEC's director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, and Andrew "Buddy" Donohue, chief of staff to SEC Chair Mary Jo White.
Sunday, Feb 28 -
Wednesday, Mar 2
LAS VEGAS, Nevada
"ABS Vegas 2016." SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar will deliver keynote speech. Other speakers include Hughes Bates of the SEC's Office of Structured Finance and Monique Rollins, U.S. Treasury's Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Capital Markets.
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Transparency. Inclusiveness. Consensus.
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