Week InAdvance | Mon May 21 G20 foreign ministers in Buenos Aires. | Tue May 22 House may vote on Senate-passed Dodd-Frank bill. | Wed May 23 GSE hearing. FOMC minutes. | Thu May 24 Cybersecurity hearing. | Fri May 25 EU's GDPR takes effect. 
Monday | May 21, 2018
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Thursday, Jun 14
Annual INVESTORS Day
Roundtable & Reception
One Financial Center
11 am - 4 pm EDT

Come when you can, leave when you have to, take your calls.
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Matthew Jones,  staff director 
mjones@association.institutionalINVESTORS.org
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Wednesday, May 23
FEDERAL RESERVE
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will release minutes from its May 1-2 policy meeting , at which the benchmark interest rate was left unchanged.
on the hill

Tuesday, May 22
HOUSE OVERSIGHT
Open hearing to examine the ten years of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program).

Tuesday, May 22
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS
Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing on the Treasury Department budget. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies.

Tuesday, May 22
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Executive session meeting to consider S. 2098, the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA).

Tuesday, May 22
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The House plans to  consider Senate-passed bill, S. 2155 , that would ease certain Dodd-Frank regulations; would raise to $250b from $50b the asset threshold for banks to be designated as SIFIs (systemically important financial institutions).

Tuesday, May 22
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
V ote on legislation to beef up the U.S. process for vetting foreign investments.  The committee is expected to take up a modified version of a bill (H.R. 4311 ) that would strengthen the authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S (CFIUS).

Wednesday, May 23
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Open hearing on the status of the housing finance system and its ten years of conservatorship, with testimony by  Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt.

Wednesday, May 23
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment hearing on legislative proposals to help fuel capital and growth on Main Street.

Thursday, May 24
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Open hearing on cybersecurity risks to the financial services industry and its preparedness.
across the globe

Monday, May 21
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 countries meet . Ministers confirmed include those from the U.K., China, Japan, Australia, Germany, Mexico and Canada. The U.S. will send deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan.

Wednesday, May 23
Thursday, May 24
BRUSSELS, Belgium
2018 IIF Spring Meeting organized by the Institute of International Finance. Topics include finance in a data-driven world, the future of fintech in Europe, and a global regulatory update.

Thursday, May 24
LONDON, U.K.
The Bank of England will host Markets Forum 2018 at Bloomberg London. Speakers include Mark Carney, governor of the U.K. central bank, and William Dudley, president of the New York Fed.

Thursday, May 24 -
Saturday, May 26
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, and Japan's Shinzō Abe participate on a panel moderated by Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait.

Friday, May 25
EUROPEAN UNION
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation  (GDPR) takes effect, requiring businesses that collect data from EU citizens to obtain their "unambiguous" consent in advance.
other events

Monday, May 21
WASHINGTON DC
CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) Chair J. Christopher Giancarlo will make an appearance at the North American Securities Administration Association (NASAA) Fintech Forum.

Monday, May 21
WASHINGTON DC
Mexico negotiators in DC for Nafta trade talks.

Monday, May 21
NEW YORK CITY
Chief Executives Organization's CEO Financial Seminar 2018, "Visionary Investing: Managing Late Cycle Risks and Opportunities."

Monday, May 21 -
Wednesday, May 23
WASHINGTON DC
2018 FINRA Annual Conference. 

Thursday, May 24
Friday, May 25
DALLAS, Texas
Federal Reserve regional banks host a technology conference. Participants include Fed bank presidents Raphael Bostic of Atlanta, Robert Kaplan of Dallas, Philadelphia's Patrick Harker, and Chicago's Charles Evans.
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