Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) News

US Regulators Add Artificial Intelligence to Potential Financial System Risks

Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could create new risks for the U.S. financial system if the technology is not properly supervised, a panel of regulators warned on Thursday. The Financial Stability Oversight Council, which comprises top financial regulators and …

Yellen Says Extreme Weather Exposes Gaps in Insurance Protection

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the weather-related havoc playing out across the US is exposing a “protection gap” for Americans seeking insurance against property losses. Yellen, who also chairs the Financial Stability Oversight Council, said that a spate of extreme …

Rhode Island Regulator Dwyer Named to Financial Stability Oversight Council

The Executive Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has appointed Beth Dwyer, superintendent of Banking and Insurance for Rhode Island, to serve as NAIC’s representative on the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Dwyer will succeed recently retired …

Regulators Warn of Climate Change, Stablecoins as Systemic Financial Risks

Climate change, the rapid growth of “stablecoins” and financial innovations that led to frenzied trading of GameStop Corp shares early this year are threats to the U.S. financial system that merit closer scrutiny, a Treasury Department-led regulatory panel said on …

Top Regulators’ Roadmap Addresses Climate Change as Threat to U.S. Financial Stability

Climate change is an “emerging threat” to U.S. financial stability that regulators should address in their everyday work, a top U.S. regulatory panel said on Thursday, a first for the United States which has lagged other wealthy countries on tackling …

Treasury Secretary Yellen Says ‘Systemic’ Tag May Not be Right for Asset Managers

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday it is important to “look carefully” at systemic risks posed by asset managers, including BlackRock Inc., but said designating them as systematically important financial institutions may not be the right approach. Yellen’s remarks …

U.S. Lawmakers Urge Regulators to Treat Cloud Services as Players in Financial System

Two U.S. lawmakers have called on a top financial regulatory panel to consider direct oversight of the cloud services big tech companies provide to banks, saying they have become a critical component of the global financial system. In a letter …

Treasury Erases ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Label on Prudential

The Trump Administration has rescinded the systemically risky – or “too big to fail” – designation for Prudential Financial that placed the financial services giant under extra regulatory scrutiny. The designation of Prudential as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI) …

U.S. Regulator Pulls Back from MetLife’s ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Designation

The U.S. government and MetLife Inc. announced on Thursday they would jointly seek to dismiss an appeal over whether the insurance company should face stricter oversight as a key part of the financial system. MetLife and the Financial Stability Oversight …

Trump Nominates Life Industry’s Workman to Replace Woodall on Financial Stability Panel

President Donald Trump wants Thomas E. Workman, an attorney and former life insurer trade group leader, to be the independent insurance industry’s voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) for a term of six years. The FSOC, which …