Week InAdvance | Mon Mar 13 DC conference on the state of global banking & finance. | Tue Mar 14 FOMC monetary policy meeting (thru Wed). Chile hosts Asia-Pacific trade talks. | Wed Mar 15 FOMC rate decision. | Thu Mar 16 G20 finance ministers & central bankers gather in Baden-Baden, Germany. | Sat Mar 18 China Development Forum opens in Beijing.
Mon Mar 13, 2017
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Wednesday, Mar 15
INVESTORS CMBS Council meeting
(available via telecon)
3 - 3:30 pm ET

for more info on INVESTORS Councils
Matthew Jones,  staff director 
mjones@association.institutionaINVESTORS.org
(202) 712-9050
at the agencies

Tuesday, Mar 14 -
Wednesday, Mar 15
FEDERAL RESERVE
Fed's Federal Open Market Committee holds its monetary policy meeting. The FOMC will announce its decision on interest rates at 2 pm ET followed by Fed chair Janet Yellen's news conference at 2:30 pm ET.  Fed policy makers are expected to boost their benchmark lending rate by a quarter point after data on the labor market and inflation moved more in line with their goals. The Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank set monetary policy this week as well.
on the hill

Tuesday, Mar 14
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Full committee hearing on "Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program, Part I."

Wednesday, Mar 15
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommittee on Capital Markets hearing on " The JOBS Act at Five: Examining Its Impact and Ensuring the Competitiveness of the U.S. Capital Markets."

Wednesday, Mar 16
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit hearing on "Ending the De Novo Drought: Examining the Application Process for De Novo Financial Institutions."

Wednesday, Mar 15
HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
Full committee hearing on "Legislative Proposals for Fostering Transparency."

Thursday, Mar 16
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance hearing on "Flood Insurance Reform: A Community Perspective."

Thursday, Mar 16
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade hearing on "Sound Monetary Policy."
across the globe

Monday, Mar 13
LONDON, U.K.
The draft law authorizing U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Brexit is due to return to the House of Commons, which has to decide whether to accept or reject amendments to the wording made by the upper, unelected House of Lords. The two chambers must reach agreement before the bill can be passed.

Tuesday, Mar 14 -
Wednesday, Mar 15
SANTIAGO, Chile
Chile hosts a summit on how to advance trade in the Asia-Pacific  region now that Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Chilean officials have invited all 12 countries that participated in the TPP talks as well as South Korea and China, which didn't.

Wednesday, Mar 15 -
Thursday, Mar 16
MADRID, Spain
IOSCO's Committee 5 on Investment Management

Wednesday, Mar 16
BEIJING, China
China's National People's Congress (NPC), the annual session of the country's legislature, concludes with Premier Li Keqiang's annual press conference.  With 2,987 members in 2013, the NPC is the largest parliamentary body in the world.

Thursday, Mar 16 -
Saturday, Mar 18
BADEN-BADEN, Germany
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will face his first test on global cooperation at the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting.

Saturday, Mar 18 -
Monday, Mar 20
BEIJING, China
18th China Development Forum "China and The World: Economic Transformation through Structural Reforms" will address major issues such as deepening supply-side structural reform, cross-border capital flows, economic globalization, promoting ecological progress and innovation-driven growth.
other events

Sunday, Mar 12 -
Tuesday, Mar 14
PALM DESERT, California
David Grim, director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, will give the keynote address at the Investment Company Institute's Mutual Funds and Investment Management conference. Acting Enforcement Director Stephanie Avakian and Peter Driscoll, acting director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, will discuss SEC enforcement and examinations.

Monday, Mar 13 -
Tuesday, Mar 14
WASHINGTON DC
Institute of International Bankers' annual DC conference. Speakers include Comptroller of the Currency  Thomas Curry; Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Christopher Giancarlo, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Mark Calabria, who serves as chief economist to Vice President  Mike Pence; and  Rep.  Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) , vice chairman of the House Financial Service Committee.

Tuesday, Mar 14 -
Friday, Mar 17
BOCA RATON, Florida
Acting chairman of the Comodity Futues Trading Commission J. Christopher Giancarlo and Commissioner Sharon Bowen will speak Wednesday at a Futures Industry Association conference. Giancarlo will give the keynote address, and Bowen will be part of a panel discussion about derivatives regulations and whether changes are needed.
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