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Equity futures S&P7,866+0.08% Nasdaq31,080-0.09% Dow51,962+0.07% Rates 2-Year4.80%+5 bps 10-Year5.24%+2 bps SOFR3.87%-1 bps Credit & risk High Yield3.15%+6 bps Crude92.74+0.97% Bitcoin$83,454-0.27%
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Monday, October 12 · Lead Big banks report third-quarter earnings after yields hit a one-year high Big-bank third-quarter earnings open this week, with JPMorgan Chase reporting Tuesday, October 13, alongside Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, according to Bloomberg and CNBC. These are the first quarterly results since the Fed's September 16 increase took the federal funds target to 3.75 to 4 percent. They also close on books marked before the 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.31 percent on October 5, its highest close of the past year. MarketWatch framed the week as the first read on how higher yields are reaching the economy; the September consumer price index (CPI) follows Wednesday. The 10-year closed Friday at 5.24 percent. | ▸ | Trading desks after a record run: Analysts forecast a sharp slowdown in trading revenue when the big banks report, the Financial Times reported, after a bumper start to the year. Bloomberg reported that investors will listen on the calls for the banks' assessment of consumer health, a read that arrives just before the week's spending data. Retail sales come Thursday. |
| ▸ | CPI, then Warsh: A stronger-than-expected September CPI reading could revive the recent bond selloff by pressuring the Fed to tighten more aggressively, Bloomberg reported. That would land on a committee whose September minutes showed most members believe they may need a second increase before year-end, and on bank treasurers who have already watched the 10-year move through 5.3 percent this month. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh speaks Thursday. |
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REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS Stablecoin oversight drew attention from two directions. The international standard setters told the G20 that cross-border stablecoin arrangements outrun any single supervisor. Meanwhile, US firms keep lining up at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for trust charters built around stablecoin reserves and custody; the US issuer rules those firms would operate under are still proposals. | ▸ | FSB's stablecoin report to the G20: The Financial Stability Board (FSB) sent G20 finance ministers a report on global stablecoin arrangements on October 12. It came under a letter from Chair Andrew Bailey that also flagged volatility in sovereign bond markets, vulnerabilities in private credit and risks from artificial intelligence. The report finds that a global stablecoin can span several entity types and fall under several national authorities, a coordination problem no single jurisdiction can fully address, and it assesses the limits of the data now available to monitor these arrangements. Ledger Insights read it as a warning that stablecoin regimes remain untested in a crisis. The package also includes finalized sound practices on AI adoption, and it imposes no obligation on US banks. G20 finance ministers meet October 15 in Bangkok. At home, Treasury's GENIUS Act section 3 proposal on issuance and sale (91 FR 53368) takes comments through October 19, seven days out. |
| ▸ | Trust charters, ICBA's suit: Payments and stablecoin firms keep filing for national trust charters despite the Independent Community Bankers of America's October 2 suit against the OCC, Fintech Business Weekly reported, with Rain among the latest applicants. The complaint argues the OCC's crypto trust charters violate the major questions doctrine. Lex's analysis finds the chartering rule itself is the OCC's safe ground, since it copies the statute; the exposure sits in Interpretive Letter 1176 and the Protego approval. Banks onboarding OCC trust banks as counterparties should plan for a ruling that sorts activities rather than voids charters. A trust charter is not a GENIUS Act issuer approval. |
INDUSTRY AND AI SIGNALS | ▸ | Gulf attacks, oil, funding: The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said it intercepted more missiles and drones overnight, after weekend attacks on Saudi airports killed more than a dozen people, Bloomberg reported. The Financial Times reported that oil chiefs pulled out of this week's energy congress in Riyadh. In the Strait of Hormuz, The Hill reported that the US military disabled a ship trying to bypass the blockade of Iran; the New York Post reported that Iran set a supertanker ablaze. Crude futures rose about 1 percent to near $93 a barrel before Monday's open, while S&P 500 futures were little changed. Reuters' Morning Bid paired the Riyadh strikes with the start of bank earnings and a fresh inflation reading as the week's drivers. Lenders financing Gulf energy and shipping trade carry the direct exposure. The 2-year Treasury closed Friday at 4.80 percent, up about 5 basis points. The high-yield spread, the premium risky borrowers pay over Treasuries, widened about 6 basis points to 3.15 percentage points at Friday's close. SOFR, the overnight rate banks pay for funding, fixed at 3.87 percent on October 8. |
| ▸ | Banks in crypto plumbing: Wells Fargo has been in talks with Payward, the operator of Kraken, about sourcing liquidity for crypto trading at the bank, The Paypers reported. Separately, Standard Chartered launched custody for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, CoinGape reported. Custody and riskless-principal trading are permissible bank activities today; the supervisory tests remain safety and soundness and Bank Secrecy Act compliance. The Wells Fargo talks are reported, not announced. |
POLITICAL & LEGISLATIVE The weekend tested the Russian diesel license from Capitol Hill, and a Sunday energy ceasefire announcement met doubt in Kyiv. | ▸ | Diesel license, bipartisan pushback: Lawmakers from both parties say President Trump's diesel agreement with Russia would finance the war in Ukraine and violate US law, the Financial Times reported. That agreement underpins Office of Foreign Assets Control's (OFAC) October 9 temporary general license. Trump also said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an immediate energy ceasefire. The FT reported that the administration is threatening to halt weapons supplies to press Ukraine to stop striking Russian energy infrastructure. Zelensky said the ceasefire "is news to me," Axios reported. |
| ▸ | Trump Accounts, Bessent's pitch: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Fox & Friends Weekend that "For eligible children born during his term, Treasury is going to put a $1,000 seed investment in their Trump Account." At 18, holders may roll the account into a standard retirement account or withdraw the money for education, a business or a down payment, he said. Susan and Michael Dell have committed $6.25 billion. |
WHAT'S COMING | ▸ | Small-bank exam cycle: Small insured institutions near the eligibility line for the OCC's expanded examination cycle, along with US branches and agencies of foreign banks, have until October 14, two days out, to put their views on record. No extension has been recorded. |
| ▸ | TabaPay's holding company bid: Comments on TabaPay's application to become a bank holding company for Transact Bank, N.A. (91 FR 58122) are due October 14, two days out. Banks with a stake in payments-firm ownership of national banks should file by then. |
WHAT IT MEANS | ▸ | This week's bank earnings will show how far big-bank fees and loan books both rest on AI borrowers. Yahoo Finance reported that bank earnings now hinge on Anthropic's planned IPO as the SpaceX windfall fades. On the credit side, banks began syndicating the $60 billion Broadcom-Anthropic financing on October 6, and the Financial Times reports that creditors are scrutinizing hyperscalers' data-center lease liabilities. A slowdown in trading, as the FT forecasts, would leave the underwriting pipeline carrying more of the quarter. Risk committees should ask management on the calls to size the bank's total AI exposure across underwriting, lending and syndication in a single figure. |
Dates That Matter OCT 13
1d | Comments close: Community Reinvestment Act Regulations [OCC] | OCT 13
1d | Watch: respondents' briefs in opposition due in *Custodia*, S. Ct. No. 26-62 [Watch] | OCT 14
2d | Comments close: Expanded Examination Cycle for Certain Small Insured Depository Institutions and U.S. [OCC] | OCT 14
2d | Watch: comments due on TabaPay's BHC application for Transact Bank, N.A. [Watch] | OCT 15
3d | Comments close: Petition for Rulemaking of Robert Michael Vanleeuwen [FTC] | OCT 16
4d | Effective: Whistleblower Award Determination [CFTC] | OCT 20
8d | Comments close: Request for Comment on the Listing of Compute Derivatives Contracts [CFTC] · Regulation Crypto Assets [SEC] |
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