A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators urged the FDIC to grant "fair consideration" of applications for deposit insurance made by industrial loan companies and voiced their opposition to regulatory actions that target lawful ILC applications.
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The Federal Reserve Board extended the comment period for a proposal on framework for supervision of insurance activities.
Unlike the conclusions drawn by the President's Working Group, the Federal Reserve Board researchers concluded that a broad adoption of asset-backed stablecoins can potentially be supported within a two-tiered, fractional reserve banking system without a negative impact on credit intermediation.
The Federal Reserve Board published in the Federal Register a request for comments on proposed guidance concerning a framework for the supervision of insurance activities by depository institution holding companies.
The Federal Reserve Board requested comment on proposed guidance on a framework for the supervision of any depository institution holding company that (i) is an insurance underwriting company, or (ii) has over 25 percent of its consolidated assets held by insurance underwriting subsidiaries.