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July 27, 2023: ICI President and CEO Eric Pan released the following statement on the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) proposals to develop an analytic framework for financial stability risk identification and change the process to designate a non-bank as a systemically...
In this letter, we highlight serious concerns with the Council’s approach. As compared with the Current Guidance, the Proposals take a step backward in terms of the rigor required of FSOC’s analyses of perceived risks to financial stability and appear to lower the bar for Council...
On July 12, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission, in a 3-2 party-line vote, adopted amendments to Rule 2a-7 and certain other rules that govern money market funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940. According to the SEC's adopting release (Release), the amendments are...
ICI President and CEO Eric Pan released the following statement regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) vote to adopt money market fund reforms.
At ICI's 2023 Leadership Summit, SEC Chair Gensler delivered remarks which focused on fund dilution and liquidity and how it relates to financial stability, outstanding SEC rule proposals related to money market funds and liquidity risk management, hard close, and swing pricing, and...
On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the "Commission") adopted a final rule amending Form PF, the confidential reporting form for certain registered investment advisers to private funds. Form PF provides information to the SEC and the Financial Stability...
On April 21, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC or Council) voted to issue two proposals: (i) revised guidance on the Council's process for potential designation of a nonbank financial company as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI); and (ii) a new...
What’s the issue? Following the difficulties at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Credit Suisse in early March 2023, a number of media reports cited analysts who suggested that money market funds (MMFs) are drawing deposits away from banks, adding to stresses at banks and...
ICI is pleased to announce publication of its white paper, Reaching the Debt Limit: Certain Fund Operational and Legal Considerations. If the US debt limit is not increased in a timely and orderly fashion, the US Government may be considered in default on its obligations as they...
Last week, in a major speech given at a time when financial regulators are managing a banking crisis, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pointed the finger at open-end funds and money market funds as posing risks to the financial system. ICI is happy to talk facts about the many...
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