The United States Treasury and a number of top U.S. financial regulators suggested new rules to make it easier for the Federal Reserve to designate nonbank institutions as systemically important, making it easier to supervise and regulate them.
In remarks from the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) Council Meeting on April 21, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raised concerns over “nonbank” financial institutions due to their current lack of supervision and the potential for wider financial contagion to take hold when these firms suffer through periods of distress.