Week InAdvance | Mon Jan 22 Round six of NAFTA talks. | Tue Jan 23 CFTC tech panel. WEF in Davos. | Wed Jan 24 IOSCO roundtable in DC. INVESTORS CMBS telecon. | Thu Jan 25 Senate Banking CFIUS hearing. | Fri Jan 26 G20 global infrastructure meeting in Paris.
Monday | Jan 22, 2018
please join us ...
Wednesday, Jan 24
INVESTORS CMBS Council telecon
3 - 3:30 pm ET

Join us for the entire call, or just drop by and say hi.
for more info on INVESTORS Councils
Matthew Jones,  staff director 
mjones@association.institutionalINVESTORS.org
(202) 712-9050
at the agencies

Tuesday, Jan 23
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee public meeting  to discuss their 2018 agenda, financial technology in CFTC regulated markets - potentially including blockchain/DLT, data standardization and analytics, algorithmic trading, virtual currencies, cybersecurity, and RegTech - and identify subcommittees.

Wednesday, Jan 24 -
Thursday, Jan 25
MUNICIPAL SECURITIES RULEMAKING BOARD
Board of Directors meeting. Agenda includes  a review of the MSRB's multi-year strategy, facilitating compliance with MSRB rules, primary offering practices, and professional qualification updates.
on the hill

Tuesday, Jan 23
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Nomination hearing for  Jelena McWilliams to be chair and a member of FDIC board of directors; Marvin Goodfriend to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Thomas E. Workman to be a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

Thursday, Jan 25
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Hearing  on CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) reform.
across the globe

Monday, Jan 22 -
Tuesday, Jan 23
BRUSSELS, Belgium
Finance ministers of the 19 eurogroup member states meet on Monday, the first gathering since Portuguese finance minister Mário Centeno replaced Jeroen Dijsselbloem as head of the group.  A separate ECOFIN (Economic and Financial Affairs Council) meeting of all EU finance ministers on Tuesday, where the further development of economic and monetary union, as well as implementation of an action plan on non-performing loans in the banking sector will be discussed.

Monday, Jan 22 -
Friday, Jan 26
DAVOS, Switzerland
Monday: The IMF (International Monetary Fund) will release its World Economic Outlook Update and hold a press conference.

Tuesday thru Friday: The 48th annual World Economic Forum, a gathering of global leaders in politics, business and culture, the theme of which will be the future of global co-operation relating to trade, environment, the fight against terrorism, tax systems and competitiveness. Click here for program.

Friday: Central bank governors Haruhiko Kuroda of Japan and Mark Carney of the U.K., plus IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, close the Davos meeting with a 2018 global economic outlook.

Monday, Jan 22 -
Sunday, Jan 28
MONTREAL, Canada
Sixth round of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) talks.

Tuesday, Jan 23
NEW DELHI, India
ASEAN-India summit.

Wednesday, Jan 24
PARIS, France
Multilateral BEPS (base erosion and profit shifting) Convention signing ceremony.

Thursday, Jan 25 -
Friday, Jan 26
PARIS, France
The first annual meeting of the G20 Global Infrastructure Connectivity Alliance will bring together  the world's largest institutional investors, senior government representatives from G20, OECD and developing countries, regulators and other industry participants.
other events

Wednesday, Jan 24
WASHINGTON DC
IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions) MG (Monitoring Group) roundtable on proposed reforms to the global audit standard-setting process, the third in a series of four.
transparency. inclusiveness. consensus.
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