Comptroller of the currency, the Senate Banking Committee Received a 6month update on the state of Banking Systems, the impact of covid19 and support for Small Business owners in communities of color. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we welcome to this virtually hearing the federal prudential regulators, Federal Reserve vice chairman Randal Quaries, office of the comptroller, brian brooks, chairman of yellen and mcwilliams, chairman of the National Credit administration rodney hood. We will receive testimony from each agency on efforts, activities, objectives and plans since we last testified before the committee. As well as an update on covid19 related actions. Since the passage of the coronavirus a relief and Economic Security act or cares act your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to ameliorate the Economic Impact of the pandemic as you provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30th the Federal Reserve announced changes to its facility inclu
Experiencing unprecedented declines in activity. Although the remains considerable uncertainty about the economy, we know that the Banking System has served as a source of strength throughout this period. They have supported their customers and committees by pppinating 500 million in loans. The Banking Systems ability to support the economy reflects the Industries Strong capital and liquidity position. In the Second Quarter of 2020, Equity Capital increased to more than 2. 1 trillion, which 13. 4 . Ted to highervels were slightly than the quarter preceding the pandemic. Taken meaningful action to provide banks while maintaining safety and soundness. I will provide an update in five areas in which we have made significant progress. Supporting communities in need, encouraging outstanding loan making. I would like to briefly touch on each of those, starting with our response to the Economic Risks related to covid19. We undertook a series of actions that helped maintain stability in financ
Day. Pete, i come to you. Jpmorgan the quarter was good Loan Loss Provisions were surprisingly good. The commentary today is a surprising show of coronavirus resilience thats what i just read. Why is the stock down . You know, initially it had a nice pop to the up side, scott i think people step back and say the financials, we need to hear a lot more about what theyre going to be able to do at some point in time thats outside of the trading spot because thats another area the Loan Loss Provisions, you just brought that up but how about the trading numbers . The trading numbers are outrageous for them and for citi that is an area we expected to be strong. It was Even Stronger than expected but theres more to the bank than that. I think thats what were going to be struggling with for a while with these financials. And when you look across just about every name, scott, other than Something Like a black rock, asset manager. When you look at the banks and the financial world there, they jus
[background noises] [background noises] welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing pursuant to house rules some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Some members are appearing in person and let me first remind ereveryone that pursuant to the latest guidance on the house attending physician all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Numbers werefa not wearing a may facemask will not be recognized and let me also make a few reminders for those numbers appearing in person, you will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when you are speaking is what is known in web acts as active speaker you. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. Members appearing remotely i know youre all familiar with web ex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First, you will see each person speaking during the hearing whether in person or remote as long as yous have your web acts set t
A basically online renaissance its its not any one nation its all the people organizing online and i believe that is going to be the case were going to cover that war a little bit and a few moments but 1st i want to say you know the the big themes that weve been covering there really coming to a head in 2020 diggle is ation dollar is ation japan afic ation of our Balance Sheets of Central Banks money printer go back and de china for cation now is a new thing so were going to cover those over then upcoming episodes of Summer Solutions did china for cation thats the 1st time ive heard that what does it mean what its a process of separating the Global Economy from china exiting trade deals japan as we recently reported they theyre paying their own Corporate Companies from japan 536000000 to take their factories out of china and move them to vietnam move them to cambodia move them to other places in Southeast Asia so were going to see a lot of the power all of china has come from the fact