House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and a bipartisan group of legislators asked banking regulators to clarify "through guidance and other actions" that an SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin, which describes how a custodian must account for digital assets, is not enforceable.
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Federal Reserve Board Governor Michelle W. Bowman criticized several recent banking proposals, calling on regulators to “appropriately calibrate and prioritize their supervisory and regulatory actions.”
The OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC and National Credit Union Administration revised an interagency policy statement on allowances for credit losses. The revisions were in response to amendments the Financial Accounting Standards Board made to GAAP accounting standards on the topic in March, 2022.
In a letter to the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the OCC and the NCUA, Senator Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) and Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC) criticized SEC guidance on the accounting treatment of cryptocurrency assets by custodians.
The New York State Department of Financial Services proposed a regulation establishing how supervisory and examination costs will be assessed on virtual currency businesses.