President Biden has signed the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill into law, including two provisions tracked by the banking industry.
The first is a
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has
The other is a measure that would impose new requirements on banks and other businesses to
The banking industry responded positively to the news. Bank Policy Institute President Greg Baer said in a statement that the Libor fix “safeguards global financial markets from uncertainty,” while the cyber incident reporting requirement “creates a uniform reporting standard across every major sector of the economy and gives the government the information they need to coordinate and better defend against attacks.”