Federal Reserve Issues Supervisory Letter on Crypto Activities for Banks
Similar to what the OCC issued in December 2021, in August 2022, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) issued a Supervisory Letter outlining the steps FRB…
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Moving to One Minute TRACE Reporting: A Review of FINRA Proposed Changes to Rule 6730
Background FINRA has been collecting and disseminating fixed income transaction information through TRACE since 2002. Fixed income markets have continued to change dramatically since 2002,…
How to Show Last Refresh Date in Power BI
Showing the last refresh date and time in a Power BI report let you know how to refresh your report data, as sometimes the report…
10 Steps to Integrate Power Apps on Power BI Dashboard
Microsoft Power Apps is an excellent example of a Platform as a Service (PaaS). It allows you to create mobile or tablet apps for internal…
Column Mappings as a Dynamic Content in Azure Data Factory
In this post, I would like to walk you through the approach by which we can provide the column mappings as a dynamic content in…
What Is Not Considered a TRACE-Eligible Security and What Should Not Be Reported
A TRACE-eligible security does not include a debt security that is issued by a foreign, sovereign government or a money market instrument. A money market…
What Information Must Be Included in a TRACE Trade Report? (Part 5 of 6)
Because the purpose of TRACE is to help facilitate transparency in the U.S debt market, each TRACE trade report is required to contain the following…
The Architecture of Stablecoins
In a recent speech and interview with the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University, current Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu…
When and by Whom Should TRACE Transactions Be Reported? (Part 4 of 6)
So far in our 6-part blog series explaining the intricacies of TRACE, we have defined TRACE reporting, detailed the prep work to be done in…