Talks about efforts to counter irans Illicit Financial Networks. The Atlantic Council hosted this our 20 minute forum. [indistinct chatter] william hello, everyone, and welcome to the Atlantic Council. Welcome to everyone here and those watching on cspan and our livestream. My name is william wechsler, and i lead Atlantic Councils work on the middle east. Im delighted to welcome you to an event cohosted for strategy and security and our Global Business and economics programs initiative. This event is on the record, and please tweet if you are so inclined, and if so, use the hashtag shapingsanctions. Today, we are here to learn more about hezbollah and its finances. Hezbollah is one of the most sophisticated terrorist organizations and stabilizing factor in the middle east. Organizations in the world, and a key destabilizing factor in the middle east. Iran reportedly provides the terrorist group with hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, u
Ceo will join us with a first on cnbc interview. It was really good. Breaking news from the white house. President trump about to discuss the Senate Health care bill. Kayla tausche has a detail and maybe some breaking news as well kayla . Reporter bill, we are expecting the president to make remarks from the blue room here at the white house in just about 15 minutes time but it comes as the white house and its cabinet agencies are trying to coalesce and put together a unified policy and a unified front in exactly what its stance is when it comes to health care. Of course, this as the senate is expected to vote this week on a procedural motion to proceed on the houses Health Care Bill its that sort of slate from which they can build, they can amend, they can potentially edit that as they see fit, but it is that motion to proceed that is going to come up this week im told by senior gop aides theres no date set for that just yet, but in terms of white house policy, a Senior Administration
And im very pleased to be here today to introduce a moderate a discussion with the president of the Federal Reserve bank of minneapolis, neil kashkari, he took office as the president and chief executive officer at the minneapolis fed on january 1st of 2016. As part of that rule he serves on the federal open Market Committee bringing the feds ninth districts perspective to mondetary policy discussions in washington. However i do want to preface the appearance by noting that after president accepted our invitation to speak here today, the fed adjusted its blackout period ahead of its Monetary Policy decision so that we are in fact within the feds blackout period today. President kashkari was very kind to keep his commitment to be here today but not able to talk about the Monetary Policy aspect of his position at the fed in todays session. That said, there is lots we can still talk about and i know we will have a very good discussion on the topic of too big to fail. But before that, a li
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By Tony Obiechina In most countries, banks are the most important financial institutions for intermediating between savers and borrowers, assessing risks, executing monetary policy, and providing payment services. At the same time, the configuration of their portfolios makes them especially vulnerable to illiquidity and insolvency. In particular, by law, bank deposits have to be repaid