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The CFTC, Fed, ECB in the News
The U.S. House and Senate are back in session this week. It is hoped and expected that the Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Dan Berkovitz to be a CFTC Commissioner sometime this month.
On Monday, IOSCO’s Annual Conference will open in Budapest. There will be a number of high-level meetings at he conference, including the inaugural meeting of IOSCO’s new Board on Wednesday. The conference will run through Friday.
On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will participate in a panel discussion in Zurich on “Monetary Policy Influences on Global Financial Conditions and International Capital Flows.” CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz will speak at the SIFMA Operations Conference in Phoenix. European Commissioner for Financial Stability Valdis Dombrovskis will be in Riga, Latvia for several days of high-level meetings with Latvian government officials.
On Thursday, the SEC will kick-off its Fifth Annual Conference in Financial Market Regulations at the SEC’s headquarters in Washington, DC; the conference will run through Friday. Also, EU Commissioner Dombrovskis will deliver a keynote speech in Riga on “New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2018: Productivity and Economic Growth.”
On Friday, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will speak at a conference in Florence, Italy.
Crypto-Assets: Too Big to Ignore, Too Challenging to Trade? – Profit & Loss
Although cryptocurrencies have become too big for institutional investors to ignore, there are still significant barriers deterring them from entering the crypto space, said speakers at Profit & Loss’ 2018 Latin America conference in Mexico City.
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