Week InAdvance | Mon May 8 FSOC closed meeting to discuss designation of nonbank financial companies. | Tue May 9 INVESTORS CMBS Council telecon. | Wed May 10 SEC's small & emerging companies panel meets. | Thu May 11 Fannie-Freddie role reviewed in Senate. INVESTORS MPC telecon. El Nino forecast. | Fri May 12 WTO committee meets in Geneva. | Sun May 14 IOSCO annual conference in Montego Bay.
Mon May 8, 2017
please join us...
Tuesday, May 9
INVESTORS CMBS Council telecon
3 - 3:30 pm

Thursday, May 11
INVESTORS Market Practices Council telecon
11 - 11:30 pm
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Wednesday, Jun 21
INVESTORS Market Practices Council
Roundtable & Reception
One Financial Center, 5th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts
1 - 4 pm

Agenda will feature topics that impact asset managers: T+2, MiFID II, EMIR, FINRA requirements, DOL fiduciary rule, INVESTORS Council updates, and more.
for more info on INVESTORS Councils
Matthew Jones,  staff director 
mjones@association.institutionalINVESTORS.org
(202) 712-9050
at the agencies

Monday, May 8
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Executive session of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Preliminary agenda includes a discussion of the April 21, 2017, presidential memorandum on Council designations; an update on the annual reevaluation of the designation of a nonbank financial company; a discussion of interagency regulatory collaboration and the February 3, 2017, executive order on core principles for financial regulation; a discussion of the Council's 2017 annual report; and an update on bank holding companies' living wills and resolution planning.*

Monday, May 8
MUNICIPAL SECURITIES RULEMAKING BOARD
MSRB Municipal Advisor Summit (available via telecon) for municipal advisors registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the MSRB. Speakers include key MSRB staff and representatives of the National Association of Municipal Advisors and the National Society of Compliance Professionals.

Wednesday, May 10
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
The SEC's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies will discuss the underwriting of small offerings, receive updates from SEC staff about the tick size pilot program, and consider recommendations on secondary market liquidity for Regulation A, Tier 2 securities and the treatment of so-called "finders" that assist companies in capital raising activities.

Thursday, May 11 -
Friday, May 12
FEDERAL RESERVE
Fed's Board of Governors conference on "developments in empirical monetary economics."
on the hill

House on recess.

Wednesday, May 10
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance hearing: on "secondary sanctions against Chinese institutions: assessing their utility for constraining North Korea."

Wednesday, May 10
SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Hearing on "cyber threats facing America: an overview of the cybersecurity threat landscape."

Thursday, May 11
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Hearing on "the status of the housing finance system after nine years of conservatorship." Witness testimony from  Federal Housing Finance Agency's Mel Watt , who heads Fannie's and Freddie's regulator.
across the globe

Monday, May 8
LISBON, Portugal
Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will speak at the  International Swaps and Derivatives Association annual general meeting.

Monday, May 8 -
Tuesday, May 9
TOKYO, Japan
The International Institute of Finance spring meeting.

Tuesday, May 9 -
Thursday, May 11
NICOSIA, Cyprus
European Bank for Research and Development (EBRD) 2017 Annual Meeting and Business Forum.

Wednesday, May 10 -
Friday, May 12
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia
World Economic Forum on ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).

Thursday, May 11
MUMBAI, India
Federal Reserve Bank of New York president William Dudley speaks on the "benefits and challenges of globalization."

Thursday, May 11 -
Friday, May 12
HELSINKI, Finland
The Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank will hold a regular meeting for the first time outside of Frankfurt.

Thursday, May 11 -
Saturday, May 13
BARI, Italy
Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors meet in southern Italy to discuss  the relationship between inequality and economic growth, international taxation and financial regulation, and the role global security has to play as a public good.  Top financial officials will also discuss the global economy, which after years of underperformance is registering more impressive growth this year than many had expected

Friday, May 12
GENEVA, Switzerland
World Trade Organization's Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures meeting.

Sunday, May 14 -
Thursday, May 18
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica
42nd Annual Conference of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) on  "the role of markets and markets regulators in the post-crisis world."
other events

Tuesday, May 9 -
Wednesday, May 10
BOCA RATON, Florida
At SIFMA's annual operations conference, MSRB General Counsel of Regulatory Affairs Michael Post will participate in a panel discussion on fixed income market structure on May 9. MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly will participate in a panel on the "implications of regulatory implementation" on May 10.

Wednesday, May 10
NEW YORK CITY
The SEC's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and New York University's Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions will host a dialogue on "reviving the U.S. IPO market." After   nearly 15 years of low levels of IPO activity, the dialogue will explore the economic causes and consequences of the perceived weakness in the U.S. IPO market and discuss ways to encourage more capital-raising through IPOs.

Thursday, May 11
The U.S. releases its monthly El Nino forecast on the status of the equatorial Pacific. If an El Nino, associated with a band of warm ocean water, forms there, it'll have consequences for the Atlantic hurricane season, U.S. energy use next winter, and agricultural markets around the world.
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