industry NEws HEadlines Chairman Clayton nominated to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The nomination appears to be stalled. FINRA published Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Securities Industry Sidley Update, FINRA Issues its 2020 Artificial Intelligence Report for Industry Comment In an interview for the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, Brian Brooks revealed plans to unveil “Payments Charter 1.0” this fall The OCC requested comment on their rules on digital activities The CFPB and OCC hosted virtual innovation office hours The Financial Stability Board published a consultive document proposing 10 high- level recommendations for the effective supervision of global stablecoins by international regulators. Bank of Japan published a report “Technical Challenges of CBDC: Central Bank Digital Currency As the Cash Equivalent” The Bank of Canada published a Staff Analytical “Note Designing a CBDC for Universal Access.” The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that there is no Fourth Amendment protection that precludes the use of analytics to trace BTC transactions or protects transaction records on an exchange. The IRS published a Request for Information about systems that will allow developers and testers to conduct investigative research on privacy coins tracing
