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Equity futures S&P7,683+0.30% Nasdaq29,197+0.27% Dow52,648+0.48% Rates 2-Year4.70%+2 bps 10-Year4.99%0 bps SOFR3.90%+2 bps Credit & risk High Yield3.40%+13 bps Crude101.40-1.81% Bitcoin$80,281+0.32%
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Monday, October 26 · Lead Fed seen holding Wednesday, 10-year near 5 percent Traders price a better than 90 percent chance that the Federal Reserve holds its 3.75 to 4 percent target on Wednesday, according to the CME FedWatch tool. The 10-year Treasury yield stood at 4.99 percent this morning, unchanged, and the 2-year was 4.70 percent, up 2 basis points. The high-yield spread, the premium markets charge risky borrowers over Treasuries, closed Friday at 3.40 percentage points, up 13 basis points. Crude futures fell about 2 percent to near $101 a barrel in pre-market trading, and S&P 500 futures rose about 0.3 percent. Reuters' Morning Bid said stock exchange-traded funds, the Brazilian real and bonds look set to reverse sharply.
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REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS | ▸ | Fraud-alert calls get easier: Banks will find it easier to call and text customers about suspected fraud under a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) final rule effective November 25. The rule amends the financial-institution exemption in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) rules so institutions can more easily alert customers to fraudulent activity on their accounts. It also lets a caller treat a consumer's revocation of consent as covering only the category of informational robocall the consumer was answering, rather than every robocall from that caller. Telemarketing and advertising opt-outs still apply to all future calls. The rule sets no separate deadline for banks. |
| ▸ | Opt-outs by category: Under the same rule, callers may designate an exclusive means for consumers to revoke consent. The FCC also directed its Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, working with the Enforcement Bureau, to review the robocall rules for clarity. One commenter opposed the category-specific approach because of its compliance complexity; the Commission did not accept that argument. The category limit applies only to informational calls. |
| ▸ | The next round, on bankers' request: The FCC published a companion proposal on October 26 that was prompted in part by a June 30 joint letter from the American Bankers Association (ABA), the National Consumer Law Center and ACA International. The proposal would shorten the maximum time to honor a revocation request, now no more than ten business days, and it suggests seven business days as an alternative. It would also require a "revoke all" method, remove a provision that lets text senders use protocols without reply-text revocation, and address how a revocation reaches affiliates and separate lines of business. Comments are due November 25; replies are due December 28. |
The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) October 26 filings reached the plumbing banks' trading and clearing businesses use. Four Cboe exchanges rewrote a fee definition that now names tokenized venues, and the SEC approved new admission standards for the options market's central counterparty. | ▸ | Exchange fees reach tokenized venues: Cboe's BZX, BYX, EDGX and EDGA exchanges filed fee changes on October 19 that redefine "Trading Platform" by function rather than by registration. The new category covers any system that systematically executes other people's orders by electronic means. The filings give three examples: broker crossing systems not filed as alternative trading systems, systematic internalization systems, and decentralized blockchain-based or tokenized environments. At BZX, a Trading Platform pays $5,000 a month for Depth for Non-Display Usage, against $2,000 for other users; the earlier September 1 versions were withdrawn. The filings took effect on filing. |
| ▸ | Options clearing admission rules: The SEC approved the Options Clearing Corporation's August 19 filing revising its clearing-membership rules. Applicants will need a one-year operating history or equivalent senior-personnel experience, and the Risk Committee may delegate approval of applications. The changes also cover confidentiality standards, sanctions and member suspension. The published order states no effective date. |
INDUSTRY AND AI SIGNALS | ▸ | Hormuz cleared of mines, CENTCOM says: Adm. Brad Cooper, the US Central Command commander, said on October 25 that the strait's main transit routes are open and free of Iranian naval mines. CENTCOM said more than 3,000 commercial vessels transited the waterway over six months and that more than 95 percent passed safely. Al Jazeera called October the worst month for ships in the strait. President Trump told reporters there would be no strike on Iran that day. He has suggested military action could resume after the November 3 midterms. |
| ▸ | OpenAI seals off model training: OpenAI said on October 23 that it now trains its models in closed systems without internet access. The company said it worked with cloud providers to add controls across its infrastructure and to reduce the attack surface that agents can exploit. The change concerns the security of a provider that many institutions use for operations and customer-facing tools. |
WHAT'S COMING | ▸ | Exam findings rule takes effect: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) rule on unsafe or unsound practices and matters requiring attention (MRAs), together with its correction, takes effect November 2, seven days out. MRAs that examiners issue from that date fall under the amended text. |
| ▸ | Stress-test transparency in force: Also on November 2, the Fed's rule on transparency of supervisory stress-test models and scenarios takes effect. It modifies the capital planning and stress capital buffer rule, the enhanced prudential standards rule and Regulation LL. |
| ▸ | Insider-lending comments: Comments on the Fed and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) proposals on extensions of credit to insiders close November 4, nine days out. Banks that lend to their own executive officers, directors and principal shareholders have until then to put objections on the record. |
ALSO NOTED | ▸ | Kalshi is preparing exchange-traded futures on the Consumer Price Index for a December launch and is pitching them to banks, according to Bloomberg. | | ▸ | Treasury asked for comment by December 28 on renewing its federal-benefit garnishment notice collection, which it estimates at 487,750 responses a year. | | ▸ | Standard Chartered-backed Anchorpoint declined to confirm a retail launch date for its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin after HSBC's RedCoin debut, the South China Morning Post reported. | | ▸ | Wells Fargo has set customer responsibility terms for AI agent use, TokenPost reported. | | ▸ | Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok wrote on October 24 that AI has so far shown no payoff outside the tech sector, PYMNTS said. |
WHAT IT MEANS | ▸ | The FCC's robocall changes give banks room on November 25 that the companion proposal could narrow. The final rule lets a bank honor an opt-out only for the category of informational call the customer answered. The proposal asks whether to require a single revoke-all method and how a revocation should carry across affiliates and lines of business. A bank rebuilding its consent records by message category before November 25 would need those same records to process a one-step revoke-all request, and to route it across affiliates, if the FCC adopts one. Comments on that question close the day the final rule takes effect. |
Dates That Matter OCT 26
today | Watch: Colorado AG rulemaking hearing; comment period closes [Watch] | NOV 2
7d | Comments close: Exemption of Debt Obligations Issued by the European Union [SEC] | NOV 2
7d | Effective: Unsafe or Unsound Practices, Matters Requiring Attention [OCC] · Enhanced Transparency and Public Accountability of the Supervisory Stress Test Models [FRB] | NOV 3
8d | Comments close: Transfer Agent Rules [SEC] | NOV 4
9d | Comments close: Loans to Executive Officers, Directors, and Principal Shareholders of Member Banks [FRB] · Proposal of Special Measure Prohibiting the Transmittal of Funds Regarding Transactions [FinCEN] · Extensions of Credit to Insiders [FDIC] |
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